how has dissensus helped you in your life?

[luka]

how has the forum made you a better person?

 

[luka]

prompted by version telling us how dissensus has made him a much more confident and outgoing person.

 

[luka]

it's inflluence isnt univeraslly beneficient. corpsey has become a husk of a man for instance, and it's been ruinous for Stan,

 

[HMGovt’s Glorious Return!]

I think it's heartwarming how many couples met on Dissensus and went on to marry and have families. So wonderful.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

It turned @malelesbian into a chad.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Personally it's been a real fillip to see just how bad things can get.

 

[linebaugh]

prompted by version telling us how dissensus has made him a much more confident and outgoing person.

Can you quote that here?

 

[other_life]

i'd like to think i'm less sectarian, politically speaking. and value different things about music than i used to and more ambition to communicate that in my own tunes. i feel like i have a better grip, historically, on 'how the internet used to work' from backscrolling threads

 

[0bleak]

i feel like i have a better grip, historically, on 'how the internet used to work' from backscrolling threads

I kind of preferred it back when it was just a series of tubes.

 

[luka]

Can you quote that here?

"since joining dissensus I've become a much more confident and outgoing person." version.

 

[luka]

i'd like to think i'm less sectarian, politically speaking. and value different things about music than i used to and more ambition to communicate that in my own tunes. i feel like i have a better grip, historically, on 'how the internet used to work' from backscrolling threads

can you share some amusing reflections on how the internet used to work please?

 

[luka]

i'm always struck by how the blogs were a forerunner to social media like we were doing a trial run for it.

 

[other_life]

that tracks. from what i can see i feel like people thought these conversations were higher stakes than we do now, dissensus definitely seemed more sectarian/like peoples positions were more entrenched. theres a sense of loss vis a vis people broadcasting more fully formed thoughts on more independent 'nodes' that occasionally signal boosted each other as opposed to platform monoculture

 

[dilbert1]

Having an elder semi-anonymous quasi-culturati cohort, friendly but at internet’s length, that shares knowledge and life experience, playfully exercises critical powers of discrimination and judgement even in trivial matters, does provide a vague feeling of humility and belonging, can temporarily relieve the isolating weight of ignorant curiosity. It also improves my musical repertoire and as a private outlet probably makes me less annoying to deal with in person, since here I can blow off steam annoyingly about things I really have no business trying to discuss with most people I know. Secret sanctuary of the dilettantes.

“We all know very well how quickly people recognize each other, and how unequivocally they can feel that they belong together, when they discover a kinship in questions of what pleases and displeases. From the viewpoint of this common experience, it is as though taste decides not only how the world is to look, but who belongs together in it… By his manner of judging, the person discloses to an extent also himself, what kind of person he is, and this disclosure, which is involuntary, gains in validity to the degree that it has liberated itself from merely individual idiosyncrasies.” — Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future

 

[other_life]

i'm always struck by how the blogs were a forerunner to social media like we were doing a trial run for it.

it's definitely a transitional period between the internet as province of usually university-tethered specialists and hobbyists (sharing webspace with early adopter corporate/brand/retail sites) and people siloed into non-communicating subcultural niches on monopoly platforms. it's personalised, dilettantish, sometimes emotionally charged. but not facial

 

[luka]

not facial, and also using your name wasnt compulsory. lots of groovy pseudonyms like k-punk and 'oliver craner'

 

[other_life]

(officer krupke cadence) Dear oliver craner - crane you!

 

[sus]

it kickstarted me and mvuent's bromance

 

[luka]

a lot of people say you've murdered him and that's why he hasnt logged on in months

 

[other_life]

can someone send him an olive branch. send for an ambulance or an accident investigator