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in reply to @atomicthumbs's post:

For a long time I used to say "I hate software" whenever somebody told me about an irritating bug (or I ran into one myself). People would look at me strangely and say "I thought you were a software engineer?" and I'd say something along the lines of "Yeah, the more you know about software the easier it is to hate."

At some point somebody pointed out to me that all the focus on a strongly-negative emotion probably wasn't so great, which is a valid point, so I've largely shifted to just sighing and saying something "software, amirite?" But the sentiment remains!

Software hurts my bones. Especially when you can tell some aspect of a system took more development effort to cripple than implementing it in a sensible way. I digress, I should be writing my own software right now, not talking about others.

yeah. we have a private joke "computers are terrible and nobody should use them". we had to stop saying it when we realized that there are a lot of young people who take what we say seriously and don't necessarily realize that it's intended more as self-criticism (for building terrible things) than as our actual position.

if you are a young queer or neurodivergent person, you should absolutely learn all about computers. because knowledge is power and computer stuff, in particular is an important form of power in today's world, and this stuff helps our community prosper. because, for example, it means there's never a shortage of awesome queer punks who can build social sites to hang out on when corporations stop wanting to give us that...

but once you've learned about computers we hope you'll also join us in remembering to stay humble and acknowledge the reality that humanity's hubris will be its undoing and all that

sigh I mean, Cohost is a hierarchical power structure, that is the reality. it's probably the best possible hierarchy for this purpose, but it is a hierarchy and that will surely be its undoing someday. let's just hope there's a good couple years first, before it's forced to re-enact its founding violence in ways that exacerbate the existing fractures in society and all that. let's also hope that in that process we all get some good ideas for what should come next.

compared to my ideal platform, Cohost has the advantage of existing. it turns out to be a substantial advantage.

yeah, I absolutely understand what they're getting at and can't disagree with it (and I do want to decrease the amount of power over the platform held by us over time) -- I just find immediately flattening every hierarchical power structure into "monarchism" really funny

no, yeah, we weren't there for the conversation so we can't really comment, but that sounds about as unhelpful as the habit of far-right USians of classifying everything they don't care about as "socialism".

nobody is immune to dogmatic behavior, certainly not ourselves. it is important in all things to proceed with intellectual honesty, and to always be working to put our ideas on solid foundations.