Omg was thinking this after looking at their ticker. want to go back a quarter and see what their q1 2025 plans were. I hate earnings calls. but goddamn has this made me invested in seeing something crash and burn. Now I want to hear mark zucc try to explain why usage of his hellsite is down too
The funny part about digg coming back is that their main selling point (absolutely stupid and tone deaf in this environment) is that they’re using ai to moderate content so it “helps mods”. It’s going to crash quickly. Considering AI and making reddit go public are the reasons we hate the site now, it’s destined to fail. Unfortunately the future is going to be built upon huge corporations attacking usage of anything but their services and alternatives popping up that people flock to. I fully anticipate bluesky to become ruined within the next few years.
I’m glad something is happening to cause this shift, but causing massive amounts of misery and distrust is not what I thought would spur it on. Good news for those of us who know what life was like before fb and google ate the internet is it’s actually really liberating seeing the internet as this wide open place again.
Quite literally signed up for lemmy just now cause of this. So many of the sites that helped make the internet boring are committing self harm, twitter, fb, and now reddit - the old “decentralization” arguments were kind of boring to me but now I ache for the old internet and gosh darn it if the billionaires are making the best case against themselves.
I felt this way quite a bit before starting hrt. Knowling that I’d need to be boymode for months if not years, and how that might make me feel fake or give me extra anxiety, whatever.
When it came down to it, I barely think about things like that, 7 months into it. The bodily changes are really whats dictating me changing my clothes - i have small boobs now, so I’m having to buy some sort of item (bra) to stop the nips from rubbing on shirts which now kind of hurts. My “boypants” don’t fit because my waist has risen from where it was to a more feminine position, so very soon I will just have to get more “gender neutral” fitting pants. My balls have shrunk to a degree that my old boxer briefs seem pointless, so I’m thinking about moving towards diff undergarments.
Essentially, I just feel like at this point my transition is about me, how I feel and how much I and my gf are enjoying watching the transformation happen. Its a private thing. And that’s made me a LOT more confident in terms of knowing that I’m doing the right thing.
One more thing - I was heavily into makeup and dressing fem to go out, but the second it became… I guess… “real”, it meant more to me that people didn’t oggle me and I could continue to sort of peacefully exist and drift by. Everyone is different, but honestly the knowledge that it’s nobodys fuxking business what I do has allowed me a ton of freedom and the ability to separate my personal journey from “society”. Not recommending it for everyone and I 100% support being bold and out straight away, but I am also a supporter of taking it slow and evaluating it with those who matter if only because it’s helped me a LOT over the past 7 mos, and I want to remind people that it’s an option too.
Just getting into neocities and I will say, pretty much every neocities scratches this itch that’s hard to explain where it comes from, it’s not purely nostalgia, its just something that’s been missing from the internet. I think most if not all neocities are “the best”. Cop-out, i know.
Silly, it’s america, there are no trains in California.
(There are, before anyone gets at me)