xenogears

a million shades of light

  • he/they

first and foremost i am here to amuse myself
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i love weird and bad video games, speedrunning, professional wrestling, and rodents
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i hate computers
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also found on:
discord (indextic)
twitch (indextic)
bluesky for the foreseeable future, i guess



don't want to get too into it because i really don't blame anyone for feeling this way but it's kinda stunning to me that people want more types of notification on here. i already get really annoyed by waking up to like 40 notifications only to learn 39 of them are likes on a share of my post, and the other 1 is that original share. that's not 40 notifications for me. that's 1 notification for me and 39 for somebody else. good for them! i don't care!

and it's funny because i used to care a lot. when i first got here it did bother me that you don't get notifications when someone shares a post you shared. i really liked that feeling of spreading a post around to people who enjoyed seeing it. but also? i don't care! now i get notified about someone i like sharing a post i shared because it ends up on my timeline again, and specifically says they shared it from me. which i also don't like! i hate seeing posts more than once and i don't know if i care who shared something from someone else sharing it. it kinda feels like more information than i should have

idk. i think people's opinions on how social media "should" work will change gradually as they spend more time on a site deliberately trying to move away from these metrics


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in reply to @xenogears's post:

newbies to the site who haven't yet deprogrammed / haven't yet become overwhelmed by too much info / have smaller followings / looking for drop-in replacements to existing social media but wanting to skip the learning/building phase

they'll get over it or move on, I hope

yeah i think it's all just a matter of time before they settle their feelings on it and decide whether it's worth staying. and as much as i hope people stay, if they can't get past the lack of numbers, i don't really want them here lmao