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I bloody well do everything I can to: 1) stay out of any form of prison and 2) to not lose my anonymity.

I’d be furious if after all I did, either of those things happened .

It’s even a kind of defense of the most innocuous, monetization free kind of internet. I used to just use the internet to slack off or casually follow politics.

Now thanks to disenfranchisement by the kinds of systems you cannot bloody engage with, I have turned to the net (just DU..DU is as politically innocuous as Stack Exchange is academically innocuous. We really are a grassroots community here. A bunch of cranks but that’s why we are here. I mean that in a good way.).

I considered daily kos and DU and am glad I picked DU. My ex who is of like mind follows TPM and Atrios etc. We are split up but still family since unlike that Olivia Nuzzi/RFk horror show real relationships are not built on whatever that crap is built on. But I brought it up because together we scope out the lefty blogosphere (man that sounds so archaic)..or the older blogosphere.

While I dislike Cory Doctorow, I do think the old blogosphere was about as usable as the web could be as opposed to FB/TikTok/Youtube/Twitter.

I so don’t get not being anonymous online or in general.

I dread the day PubMed, stack exchange etc get overtaken by AI slop.