I love Tildes
I hope this doesn't come off as glib, or sarcastic, or any of several other negative things that I tend to be in real life, but I truly like and enjoy this community. I love that it's full of people (and that could be the whole sentence right there!) who love it enough to want it not to change, and people who love it enough to want to see it improve. I love our conversations and our characters. I love the quirks.
Anyway, given the recent announcement, I've had a vibe that kinda feels like when you're at a family gathering where several members are ill-at-ease with each other and sometimes awkward, with simmering resentments over wounds old and new, but then someone shares news with the family that brings everyone together in a moment of almost-stunned silence. And after that moment, after some heartfelt words are shared and hugs are given, people kind of relax. They laugh together. They don't exactly forget their problems, but they aren't really thinking about them for just a night. They drink and reminisce.
Anyway, if that feeling describes at all how you're feeling, too, then this is a place for unabashed, unironic, caveat-free positivity about this place we sometimes call home. There are plenty of other things to discuss, of course. This isn't a "love it or leave" thread. Just a place to set aside negativity for a moment and just... commune with each other over our shared care for this space.
I love you all (yes, even you) and appreciate what we're building here every day.
Ok bye, back to lurking for me
Lurker-99.9%-of-the-time here, and: ditto!
When the "big Internet" started becoming a nasty algorithmic melting pot, I turned towards its opposite -- forums, strange little chatrooms, neocities etc. And while I love niche interests and fringe culture, I missed the placidity of the non-enshittified aggregators. I like boring websites, places that weren't created in service to some hyper-specific interest or person. And Tildes is exactly that!
Posts around here cluster into a few broad categories:
End of list -- I love it! Like you say, @doors_cannot_stop_me (great username btw) -- these are the kind of things you'd hear at a dinner table. There's no bigger game behind the scenes, no fighting for views or likes or karma (that I'm aware of); it's just a bunch of people hanging out for no reason in particular, and nobody is trying to sell us anything.
I love Tildes. It's my personal lurker's paradise. I'm so glad I found this place.
back to ultra-lurking for me ;-] <3