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(DIR) Post #9xozTetLn0Y2ct98KW by 361.xj9@social.sunshinegardens.org
2020-08-05T19:10:50.301731Z
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@neauoire @eel i haven't had much contact with the 9front community, and i'm not on reddit so i can't speak to that either. i've enjoyed reading the 9front manual though. i think mycrofitv's work is really interesting. at this point i've lost interest in working on a linux distro in favor of plan9- and inferno-related stuff.aside from that, i've met some nice people recently at the intersection between gemini and plan9.
(DIR) Post #9xp19bXClHL8KZLx6O by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-08-05T19:29:39.377665Z
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@eel @neauoire cat-v leans very heavily right-libertarian, at least judging by the content of the website. check out the quotes pages or the 'harmful' pages and external links therein. Not sure if that qualifies as reactionary, but... yeah.
(DIR) Post #9xp1enyiXuUptx6EUa by khm@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-08-05T19:35:18Z
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@henesy @neauoire @eel I was there in small times; I know why we're like that, for better or worse. Someone in cat-v was dangerously close to working himself to death trying to appease the constant influx of drive-by demands from a stream of people who never stuck around. It was horrible to see. At the same time everything we did was regarded by the Old Guard as a direct personal attack on the original architects. We built walls. Maybe they've outlived their usefulness. It wasn't malice.
(DIR) Post #9xp2ZooK7jcKzOQLZY by khm@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-08-05T19:45:36Z
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@henesy @neauoire @eel We're like this after half a decade of (mostly 4chan) showing up and eating up a tremendous amount of people's time and energy. There were only a handful of us, but people expected the kind of response you'd get from a whole cadre of users and experts -- and then they'd get FURIOUS when we failed them. We've been spamflooded, DDoSed, so much more. The worst is when people show up and expect us to defend something Uriel wrote... I never even agreed with him half the time
(DIR) Post #9xp3SPMiQjqE00Xazo by khm@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-08-05T19:55:27Z
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@henesy @neauoire @eel This sort of thing is the best possible outcome, from our perspective. Everyone always gets mad at us for not doing enough, but the last thing in the world we ever wanted was control. All the gatekeeping is to protect the people we care about, to phalanx up and make sure the internet doesn't wash it all away. Setting up other places to do shit is excellent and necessary. I don't want a "9front community" so much as a dozen communities with different styles/priorities
(DIR) Post #9xp3Uipj1J0wxODHZA by khm@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-08-05T19:55:53Z
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@henesy @neauoire @eel This sort of thing is the best possible outcome, from my perspective. Everyone always gets mad at us for not doing enough, but the last thing in the world we ever wanted was control. All the gatekeeping is to protect the people we care about, to phalanx up and make sure the internet doesn't wash it all away. Setting up other places to do shit is excellent and necessary. I don't want a "9front community" so much as a dozen communities with different styles/priorities
(DIR) Post #9xp6A6zWJ1b3f9etRg by khm@mastodon.sdf.org
2020-08-05T20:25:45Z
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@henesy @neauoire @eel The aesthetics side of the website is mostly sl and myself. We're children of the Cold War and subverting imperialistic imagery from the era probably won't ever get old for us. When based on this people accuse us of actual imperialism I frankly just get bewildered.
(DIR) Post #9xp8DCWEPWKJaEYloO by matilde@social.sunshinegardens.org
2020-08-05T20:48:36.022393Z
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@neauoire @eel why would rando reddit ppl be on something so esoteric?Afaik plan 9 has overlap with /g/ right?
(DIR) Post #9xpBXJuAxTXQ952pns by allison@blob.cat
2020-08-05T21:26:00.633144Z
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@matilde @neauoire @eel Yes, mycroftiv notably came from there and in general a lot more people came from /g/ into the community than some of the devs would be willing to admit in polite company (yours truly included). That being said, /g/ is far from the only driving force these days and even as far as fedi goes there are like four distinct "communities" that have coalesced around the platform (sunshinegardens, sdf, freespeechextremist, and merveilles, with odd ones out like myself who don't necessarily belong to any of those communities but who interact with all of them).
(DIR) Post #9xpBvxiea8ESZpPCz2 by allison@blob.cat
2020-08-05T21:30:21.694118Z
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@matilde @eel @neauoire As to Reddit, r/plan9 is basically just it's own thing and the only overlap I see with any of the "established" communities are the rare posts henesy or mveety will make there