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Cake day: December 24th, 2023

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  • the first step to help with a disorder is to stop demonisation.

    stop calling every dislikeable person a narcissist. you don’t need to be a narcissist to be an asshole.

    people who are victims of abuse, done by people with cluster B disorders or not, often develop these disorders. they don’t seek help for it or admit it tho, because is it seen as “the abuser” disorder.

    finally, people can have cluster B traits without being cluster B themselves. same with every other personality disorder. we need to stop armchair diagnosing people, especially on the internet.











  • I’m not sure if I’ve properly explored the idea, but a specific “digital culture” would help a lot. Inside jokes, ways of speaking, emojis, memes, etc. really help an instance to distinguish itself from others.

    The best example is Hexbear (ik but just hear me out for a second). Their culture is borrowed from the edgier side of the leftist internet, but they still have a style of their own. They were so recogniseable even, that a user claimed to be scared of seeing pronouns next to someone’s username because they knew it would be a comment from Hexbear (they used to be the only instance with such features, before others followed suit).

    I have a hypothesis that a good amount of issolation, or at least encouraging users to only post on communities on your instance, would be good for developping some kind of culture, maybe even kinship between them.