Vegan_Joe

I honestly like the small, eclectic vibe better.

I don’t know what the number is, but I’ll arbitrarily say, anywhere under a quarter million is perfect.

I know the federation model provides a strength against the cascading list negatives that plague popular platforms, but I don’t doubt that with a large enough user base, exploits would certainly seep in, particularly with ease of AI bot manipulation and astroturfing.

It reminds me of the Linux saying “security through obscurity”.

Same bitrate, file size, and metadata (with my tags still included), along naming schemes and occasional misspellings.

Many of the songs I ripped and shared via Napster in the late 1900’s continued to appear on legitimate platforms years later.

Holy smokes! I see his online persona so often that I forgot he had a pen name!

“No man ever steps in the same river twice”. Everything flows.

Similarly, impermanence is a fundamental aspect of reality, and fighting it ultimately results in feeling things are unsatisfactory in some way.

Here’s the author Jason Pargin riffing on the topic of nostalgia , and the key takeaways for him are that:

• Nostalgia is toxic because it is the intense grasping for something that is definitionally forever outside of your reach
• Nostalgia is a false rose-colored filter to view things through.

That said, I have a penchant for sentimentality, and fall victim to nostalgia at every given whim I get, especially when visiting my parents’ house where I grew up.

I love to allow myself to be transported to the viewpoint of my younger self, which I feel I have lost some connection to.

I often find I was stronger and more worthy than I gave myself credit for.

If only I could properly translate that into the current moment, it would remove a lot of self-doubt that holds me back from living with confident authenticity.