Horror author from New England. Principal engineer. Active HWA, Codex member.

Co-founder, Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation.

Personal: https://semioticstandard.com

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  • The more popular a community becomes, the shittier it gets. The easier you make it to join and interact with, the more popular it will become.

    In the case of places like Gab, Truth Social, Parlor, and other right wing nut job havens, while the quality of users might not get higher if you raised the barrier to entry, those places certainly wouldn’t have become as popular as they have.

    But the barrier to entry isn’t the only reason they’ve congregated there, they have other cultural reasons driving them, primarily the owners or moderators being friendly to that kind of mindset. I don’t think the same crowd would be able to gather here as they’d just get defederated.







  • I have books scattered throughout the house, and so what I’m reading changes depending on where I am.

    • If I’m going to sit outside, I’ll grab the book I keep on the table next to the back door. Currently that’s Stephen King’s Bag of Bones

    • If I’m going to read in bed, then I pick up Tuesdays with Morris by Mitch Albom

    • If I’m going to read in the bath, I’ll grab my Kindle and work through Alma Katsu’s The Deep

    • If I’m in my office chair, I’ll work on The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defence, by Suzette Haden Elgin

    Kind of a funny way of going about things, but there it is, heh