The threads about moving to substack are the only one’s I’ve been going back to read since I stopped posting on Monday. I sent my anonymization request last night, so I’ll probably check in a few more times until the request is processed.
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I’m a far-leftist but AFAIK I was an outlier.
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He apparently missed that it wasn’t the left-ish people making those comments. It was right-ish people finally showing their true selves.
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Yeah, that’s why the name never really fit. I changed that from one with my deadname the same day I came out and hadn’t yet settled on a decent online persona for my new identity yet. That’s why I changed it when I came over here to align with much of the rest of my online presence.
And at our house, we embrace weird as well. I even had someone tell me that our house was the only place they felt they could fully unmask, and that made me pretty happy. Let that freak flag fly!
It was a very emotional message for me, but I sent it anyway. I have no interest in contributing there anymore and I can easily check the few threads I’m using as entertainment anonymously until everything locks down tonight.
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I would like to keep the BBS account – just in case – but no longer have it linked to a screen name that I use in other places…just in case.
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The concept of far-left echo chambers confuses me. It’s like they haven’t realised that the splitters scene in The Life of Brian was about British far left groups.
As the old joke says
Two Trotskyists go into an empty room together. Three new splinter groups leave.
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Heart guy posted this link over there in the goodbye thread, wondering if it might explain the sudden jump:
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That is a very good point. I was thinking in terms of easy continuity for me. But if I knew my anonymizing number, I could still search for things, couldn’t I?
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This just reminded me. The internet archive has BB archived up until 2016 (no idea about the BBS)
Edit: Yeah the BBS appears to be archived as well, though i’m checking at a glance
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Good to know!
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in my particular case is easier for two reasons:
- after leaving behind so many platforms I’m a bit numbed to the FOMO effect
- I was not really THAT active in the BBS. Yeah, 9 years there, but really only 4 active, and only the last one or two REALLY active. I’ve done much more activity here in two days than the last two weeks in the BBS (it helps that I know am “among friends”
)
I do undestand that someone with much much more baggage can find this traumatic but… Look, I downloaded my facebook history of almost 20 years of posting daily, and the only thing I regularly check is the media folder. I realized there’s not much point of the content, I was there for the community - and much of the content was transient and with expiration date (ie: what does it matter that I organized movie viewings for two years? does it have any value all the comments on my summaries, the posters, etc… 7 years later?)
In the words of the inmortal Johny Cash (after Reznor):
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
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I’ve spot checked and some years don’t bring up anything though i’m sure if i tweaked the day and month i’d get archived results. But looking around i do see activity in the BBS so that might be useful to some folks here.
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At some point – maybe when I became the site’s resident bridge dweller (but not that kind of bridge-dweller) – I realized that I had become more interested (and invested) in participating in BBS than reading BoingBoing articles themselves. I mostly only read articles on the BBS and only if they were generating lots of conversation.
After dipping my toe in the very sus SuS, and seeing that 1) this model of interaction was impossible, 2) posts were generating ZERO conversation, and 3) that the open thread approach on SubStack was fundamentally broken, I knew it was over.
I didn’t know about this place, so I’m glad @MerelyGifted called me over. Definitely feels more like home than SubStack chat.
I will miss having interesting, thoughtful, and (ideally) mostly wonderful stories shared in the systematic way the BBS managed it with BB stories, but I am sure there’s a way some sort of equivalent will happen here, if it hasn’t already.
(Amendment: I didn’t know about the sussness of SuS at the time; if I’d known I might not have bothered even checking out the scene over there. Le sigh.)
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I guess a “news” category could be created (if it already doesn’t exist) and if we find a noteworthy one can open a thread for that. Otherwise I see conversations happening over tematically realted threads, you can post and comment news there, but in this format is more like a stream instead of focused.
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Edit, I see you are proposing what I was suggesting here. A category I think would be ideal.
Not sure what to call it, but almost certainly not “boing”. Then people can post into that category whatever interesting story they found that they wanted to share with the community and it would have its own dedicated thread.
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May I suggest visiting this thread? It started as a way for the newbs to aks how they can help organize themselves and not disrupt too much the café, and contains some insifght from the admin and veterans about how it was organized until now and how it could be organized in the future
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Is there a means to not only “suggested threads” (see below) but “sibling or associated threads”? (or even ‘sub-threads’?)
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That’d fall under the “tags” feature, I think. We’ve tended to under-use the tags feature here while the place was still small but the capability is there.
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Read this on BB literally ten minutes ago, along with a couple others in a similar vein.
When someone shows you who they are etc.
(I do love the series, mind).
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