I Lost Faith in Kagi

Re:I Lost Faith in Kagi by sph on Friday April 12, 2024 @09:24AM (#40012479)

Jesus I agree with some of the post, but the author seems to be an insufferable human. This has all the characteristics of terminally-online people that spend way too much time being angry on social media, and needing the world know how angry they are.

Like, these days you do not know when you email someone if they reply to you, or if they will post screenshots of your entire conversation to social media showing how utterly disgusted they are because you dared talk to them.

Have these people forgot about how strangers in real life behave and communicate?

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Re:I Lost Faith in Kagi by t8sr on Friday April 12, 2024 @09:45AM (#40012803)

At the risk of sounding grumpy, a big difference between the tech community today and in the Usenet days is that the Usenet crowd's interpersonal skills weren't two standard deviations to the left of the mean at your local Target.

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Re:I Lost Faith in Kagi by sph on Friday April 12, 2024 @09:49AM (#40012869)

We reminisce about Usenet as this cesspool of human interaction, while everybody today is a pre-offended sociopath with an audience.

I miss talking with the average idiot from the 2000s internet.

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Re:I Lost Faith in Kagi by manuelmoreale on Friday April 12, 2024 @04:37PM (#40017397)

Not a Usenet user, still an average idiot with an open inbox and a love for talking with random people. If you miss those days ping me via email, I’m always happy to meet new people.

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Re:I Lost Faith in Kagi by sph on Friday April 12, 2024 @06:01PM (#40018141)

Fuck it, why not, you might be able to help me with something. I'll send you an email.

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Re:I Lost Faith in Kagi by acheron on Friday April 12, 2024 @09:58AM (#40012981)

> I agree with some of the post, but the author seems to be an insufferable human. This has all the characteristics of terminally-online people that spend way too much time being angry on social media, and needing the world know how angry they are.

Yes, my impression as well. (I have never used Kagi but have considered trying it.)

Among the other things, the blog author approvingly put up a screenshot with someone insisting on seeing the entire world through their own political views and demanding others do so as well. ("Actually, the word 'politics' means 'everything', and also I'm right and everyone else is wrong.") As the meme goes, they need to touch grass.

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Re:I Lost Faith in Kagi by drcongo on Friday April 12, 2024 @09:40AM (#40012731)

Yeah, I flagged this as the post feels completely unhinged to me, like the kind of ranting I used to get in emails from a schizophrenic friend.

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Re:I Lost Faith in Kagi by green_dragon on Friday April 12, 2024 @02:14PM (#40015963)

> Have these people forgot about how strangers in real life behave and communicate?

It's possible they have. These are the kinds of people who savored the COVID fear mongering as it became easier and more acceptable to become a shut-in.

This is not a bad thing. They're terminally online, not out in the real world touching grass. This makes live more pleasant for the rest of us who aren't terminally online.

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