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Honestly they don’t sound like great people, or particularly intellectually curious - you explained it well, there’s no reason for them to be caricaturing it as nerd stuff. Especially since they’re on Reddit. I wouldn’t worry about them.

Imagine the staff mods trying to run AskHistorians💀

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that was awful, and I love it

I found a Path of Exile one: https://kbin.social/m/PoE

It’s empty at the moment, and the microblog’s collecting #poe hashtags as in Edgar Allan… but at least it’s there.

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] is a thing (I’m trying to make it more of a thing, but this is June😭)

edit: I’ve just found out there’s a https://kbin.social/m/Eurovision - keep an eye on both of them for now

I don’t think it’s fair to expect someone looking to join a new knitting community to learn about client/server relationships and federated social platforms.

This is the situation with the communities I’m most interested in - it’s a big psychological barrier to entry, if you’re not particularly tech-minded. I’ve been trying to spread the word, but I don’t think I can put it simply enough (and I’ve been putting it really simply, because honestly I don’t completely understand it all myself yet).

I’m here because it was easy to sign up, it’s friendly and reasonably intuitive, and it seems like a place where you can learn by doing. I just jumped in without thinking too much about it, and it’s working out pretty well so far. I just wish more people understood that they could do the same thing…

This is so unnerving😭

I think my favourite part is how easily the bot pivoted from “you don’t care about me, leave me alone” to cheerfuly listing its favourite Microsoft employees. Although trying to deflect the bot’s scarily intense lovebombing by asking for shopping advice for a new rake - that seems like a good life tip, I’m going to remember that one…

and now I’m going to uninstall Bing:/

Same - and that’s why it sucks that they’re going to ruin those communities. But hopefully we can build something better on here.