throwaway90090

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by throwaway90090 5y ago
You have an Elo rating, like in chess (or something like that - it depends on the app and they sometimes tweak it, but the gist is that rating is defined recursively: your rating increases if you get liked by high rated people), and you get
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by throwaway90090 5y ago
No, there isn't. Maybe at the very beginning when people were genuinely entranced by this Internet thing and hadn't figured out the best way to milk loneliness for profit, but now it's all rotten and beyond repair. If you wan
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by throwaway90090 5y ago
So don't have your livelihood or material comfort depend on greedy and uncaring megacorps? Evergreen xkcd: https://xkcd.com/743/
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by throwaway90090 5y ago
I know "don't use social networks made by evil megacorps that make money by trampling all over your privacy and making you addicted" is the kind of advice everyone sagely nods at but no one heeds. But it especially applies
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by throwaway90090 5y ago
English is the javascript of languages: full of warts and enforcing a status quo that sucks but everyone has to learn it because this is the world we live in. Esperanto would be like Haskell: beautifully pure and regular but no one uses it
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by throwaway90090 5y ago
Afaik you don't have an Elo rating on a social network
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by throwaway90090 5y ago
Italy is a very nice country that offers a high quality of life, but if you naively show up there you will quickly find out why literal millions of young educated Italians are emgirating all over Europe: there are no jobs. By all means, if