some weird furry thing that's trying to make the best of a bad situation, just like anybody

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estradialup
@estradialup

People need to learn how and when their own personal issues do not override the basic principles of social situations. I say this as someone who doesn't handle a lot of social situations well, who is autistic, who is easily alienated, who has a lot of personal experience with a lot of traumatic things.

If you can't handle X or Y ever coming up, you probably shouldn't be online in the sense that we currently conceptualize it. If you earnestly need a space containing a lot of people to have a 100% satisfaction rate for you, you need to rethink how and where you choose to occupy it. There's a point where you need to gain perspective and some sort of self-control, or actually step back (instead of just threatening to) and run your own Discord server of identically-minded people, or something, and be the enforcement mechanism that nobody else can for you.


hellgnoll
@hellgnoll

i say this as somebody who runs a small exclusive discord for my inner circle, and basically has all the same brain poison as fox here. (I should know, we podcasted together for a while lol.) And one thing I've often said is that "my discord is my livingroom". It's a private space and first and foremost it's built for my comfort, and then i put a lot of work into being a good host for my friends because im that kind of bitch.

But a lot of parasocial problems definitely originate from people looking for authorative control of their timelines, and conflating that "i am on the timeline in my personal space" to mean that "the timeline is my personal space" - it isn't, though. It's extremely impersonal.


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