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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldtoaww@lemmy.worldCuddle Buddies
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    11 days ago

    This post makes me irrationally angry. I see the world as this burning wreckage of human interaction. A decaying hell where suffering is not only rampant, but also the goal of those in power.

    And you can’t change it. You’re not big enough to change thousands years of oppression, slavery, classism, eliteism. You’re not big enough to rise above it. No one is. And every collective effort to bind together to change things gets squashed before it gains momentum.

    A lot people are incapable of accepting the truth. A lot of people are uncomfortable hearing “you don’t matter”, then seeing the world around you, and knowing it’s true. A lot of people can’t accept that.

    But I have. Decades ago. Seeing how things play out, not only for me, but also people like me. I’m nothing special. I never suggested I was. I just grew up being taught that everybody is worthy of being happy.

    Then you grow up, and notice that nobody is happy. Everywhere around you is depression, anxiety, fear, and despair. It’s inside your instinct to fight the core concept of hate, and racism. To defeat not the racists, but the very foundational core concept of racism itself.

    And the more you spend your teenage years trying to spread this message of love and acceptance, the more your message is defeated. Not by some elitist opposition who sabbotages your words. Rather from ears of apathy. An entire society that has collectively agreed that this is what the human experience is meant to be.

    So you begin to accept the fact that you are nothing. Life is nothing. The very construct of happyness is a myth that you never have felt, and never will feel. No one has.

    And just as you accept that premise for the past 2 decades…you see this image. A pure image. In that moment, the puppy is happy. The kitten is happy. Everyone observing is happy. This is what happy is. This proves the concept of happy is real.

    Which then pisses me off that I live in THIS world where it’s next to impossible to find happyness!!!

    GAAAHHH!!!

    flips a table on the way out









  • My point is, she doesn’t want to be @[email protected]

    That’s so much extra offputting text. She just wants to be @taylorswift

    That’s short, it’s concise, it’s easy to remember. It’s branding.

    Just try to imagine a newscastor telling some story, and saying at the end:

    “For all the latest from taylor swift, you can follow on the fediverse @taylorswift”

    Now imagine that, compared to this:

    “For all the latest from taylor swift, you can follow on the fediverse @[email protected]

    You can make it so the official handle in operation behind the scenes is @[email protected]

    That’s not the issue. The issue is, she would want to control her own name. Meaning I couldn’t make @[email protected]

    Yes, it’s easy to spot that being fake TO YOU. You have to remember that 60% of America is literally illiterate. Domains are NOT hard to register, but they are hard to register every single variation of a false domain.

    Now I can be @[email protected]

    And how many people might fall for that? And sure, you don’t eliminate the problem by making handles exclusive, but it makes it harder to fake, and easier to go after those attempting identity theft.