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title: "social media fast: an ironic next post"
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published: 2019-11-27
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## DON'T PANIC
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i haven't forgotten my ill-conceived promises regarding follow-up posts to
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earlier entries. my next blog posts should include something along the lines of either a **part: next** for
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my `about me` series only hopefully more interesting as i continue going
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through the list or, more likely, a `better written introduction to the
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fediverse` based on the feedback i've received from the beautiful people on fedi
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who read it and gave me their thoughts.
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## but first, let's talk irony
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my last post was all about social media, quite literally. and since then i
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decided to take a fast from social media. not a long one, just a short one. i
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told very few people about it and the people i did tell got to know by virtue
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of them being online at the right time and in the right [xmpp muc](# "multi-user chat in jabber").
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> why would a hikineet need a break from social media? not like you've got anything better to do.
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*au contraire*, **バカ**, if that's what you were thinking.
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in fact, the potential
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dangers of things like social media (or online games and so on) are, in all
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likelihood, greater than for someone who is able to go to work every day and
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meet people and have extra moneys for drinks or eating out or going to shops
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and buying cool anime decor. it is much easier for someone not usually bound
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the time of day in the location one is at to get lost in social media. i live in `murabito dynamic time`, for the record.
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the problem is magnified tenfold if it's proprietary social media like
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f\*cebook and tw\*tter and inst\*gram etc. which are specifically designed to
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be as addictive as possible and use secret algorithms to choose whose posts you
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see when and are riddled with ads and contaminated by the evils of systematic
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opaque data-mining of personal information for nefarious corporate ends.
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the only conditions i set for myself that must be met before i can get back on
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social media (in my case essentially the **fediverse** and **jabber**) are **1:
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that i am well rested** and **2: i get some things i've meaning to do offline done**
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(basically, in one way or another be productive and at some point do some
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cleaning). i have yet to find out if these conditions are a good way to get out
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of this what i am hoping to but so far they seem to be serving some purpose: i
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have slept more, and the second condition has kept me from returning to my
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social media prematurely. this is a detox in a way and i still haven't found my
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groove yet.
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## my real reason for writing this blog post
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> other than it is something i wouldn't have found the time for if i was chatting in xmpp or catching up on fedi
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i actually made an online purchase. of the
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[monogatari series bundle that's on sale right now at humble bundle or wherever](https://www.humblebundle.com/books/monogatari-kodansha-books?hmb_source=navbar&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=tile_index_3 "there's only like 6 days left so if you want it yourself i hope you read this before those days are over"). i wanted all of it so i paid the 20 instead of a
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lesser amount. i hadn't a lot of experience reading translated (or untranslated
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for that matter) light novels and manga especially recently because i always
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worried they'd be too liberal with their translations. i know i am a unique
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case, but i ***don't want my japanese shit localised at all***. ***don't change
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the smegging name order, don't remove the honourifics, and if something is said
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that is a japanese-specific pun or cultural reference give me TL don't change
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it***.
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> did it deliver? how did it hold up to your creepy weeby standards?
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well, i'll tell you. `the name order is changed`. `there are no honourifics
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even when there clearly were in the original text`. and really, so far that's
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all i can tell you. that and they use the american spellings for everything (i
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was expecting this, at least, though). i am trying not to let it bother me, the
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localising. it's really, *really* difficult, though.
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> but hey, at least it didn't cost much, right?
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***wrong***. that is a lot of money for me. i am well below the poverty line
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and the poverty line is already really low. and there are a ***lot*** of things
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i want to buy. but this was probably my only chance to get so much monogatari
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source content at a reasonable price. smegging would rather have physical
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copies though, and i am going to be spending less on food (yes, food) so i can
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make as if it didn't end up costing me anything. if i spend 20 less on food, i
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might be a little hungrier, but i will be happy with my purchase because i
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won't have that large number looming over it. i can think of it as costing me
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some food rations instead. so it's a trade, not a purchase.
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## in conclusion, i guess
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i don't regret my purchase but i am not super stoked about it either. it feels
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neutral. but that's not bad, and no net loss is a good thing. i do look forward
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to reading more than the little i have so far. i will probably do this drunk or
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high to avoid the natural cringe of localisation. but i think it will be a good
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time.
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and with this, palatable reader, i bid you adieu.
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**stay tasty o/**
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