# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
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# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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@jlj I could not agree more π I _genuienly_ think so many of us have become too sensitive and judgmental π₯ Worse is this whole PC phase many parts of the world are going through π€¦ββοΈ
@jlj I could not agree more π I _genuienly_ think so many of us have become too sensitive and judgmental π₯ Worse is this whole PC phase many parts of the world are going through π€¦ββοΈ
@prologic Yes, exactly. I mean, we were probably always this judgmental; but now we all have a platform to trumpet it from, solicited or otherwise!\n\n@https://tt.vltra.plus/user/laz/twtxt.txt> pointed me to this wonderful quote from Hayek that's particularly relevant here too, I feel:\n> [On true, and false, individualism, one] might even say that the former is a product of an acute consciousness of the limitations of the individual mind which induces an attitude of humility toward the impersonal and anonymous social processes by which individuals help to create things greater than they know, while the latter is the product of an exaggerated belief in the powers of individual reason and of a consequent contempt for anything which has not been consciously designed by it or is not fully intelligible to it.\n\nFrom *Individualism and Economic Order*, circa 1948. I wonder what **he'd** make of the Internet. :-P
One thing my lovely wife pointed out to me this evening on the subject is how weβve effectively built a way to have honest open conversations without riling each other up π
One thing my lovely wife pointed out to me this evening on the subject is how weβve effectively built a way to have honest open conversations without riling each other up π
@jlj Also after re-reading that quote several times π³ Man thatβs some provocative thinking there π€
@jlj Also after re-reading that quote several times π³ Man thatβs some provocative thinking there π€
Agreed, @kt84! :-)\n\nI mean, part of that is being a small community of higher than average intelligence, of course... lol! ;-)\n\n**But** I think you deserve lots of credit for building software that has time to reflect built in; I honestly think that's hugely important, and I'm glad that we've preserved it through this rebranding / enhancing.
Yeah I think behind a keyboard and monitor has made people act quite differently as a society towards each other. For example people will be rarely so radical or lean to such political extremes in person, but online is a different matter. I think also this grows exponentially on larger online spaces - the reason why as communities grow they tend to become more 'noisy' and what some may deem 'toxic'. I think we've all seen that in some way or another, on those platforms [1/2]
@prologic Seriously! @laz is gonna get sick of me pinging him on every platform we share, thanking him, but... Well, I just love it! It's on nfld.uk now, for cryin' out loud! :-P Particularly because I spent quite a bit of time reading Hayek over the last few years and came to the conclusion that we really don't share much of a worldview... How wrong I was!
@prologic \nIt is still too early, and too few of us. Give it some time, and your wife might revise her statement. π
@prologic
It is still too early, and too few of us. Give it some time, and your wife might revise her statement. π
[2 / 2]...made far worse by platforms such as Facebook etc using algorithms to encourage negativity and conflict.\n\nI think communities such as the ones you find here have a massive advantage of not having those algorithms obviously, but also the nature of the platform (protocol?) is you kind of make your community around you. And the whole experience is more interpersonal (as much as can be in text exchanges) and full of less distractions. I could ramble on but you get it π
@eldersnake π― π @quark may not yet appreciate this but the technical and design choices made here on Yarn.social and indeed built upon a very simple but extended Twtxt are very deliberate to all these points π€ Even such things as an active cache and archival process π were deliberate !
@eldersnake π― π @quark may not yet appreciate this but the technical and design choices made here on Yarn.social and indeed built upon a very simple but extended Twtxt are very deliberate to all these points π€ Even such things as an active cache and archival process π were deliberate !
But most importantly of all is the decentralized nature and as @eldersnake put it the community you build around you that forms a part of a bigger community of βpodsβ!
But most importantly of all is the decentralized nature and as @eldersnake put it the community you build around you that forms a part of a bigger community of βpodsβ!
I also do genuinely think that Yarn.social is pretty hard to abuse and quite hard to create βnoiseβ too βΊοΈ
I also do genuinely think that Yarn.social is pretty hard to abuse and quite hard to create βnoiseβ too βΊοΈ
@jlj haha, no problem. No alerts on Yarn.social π