social.noyu.me

“[with online text-based communication] you are always in a superposition of being alone and in infinite company“

goddamn

without going into too much detail my life for the past year has been alternating between having no physical company usually and having semi-permanent physical company, alongside the usual text-based communication superposition, so this hits rather hard. maybe text is bad huh

i personally kind of embrace text chat because it seems like the closest thing i can get to morphological freedom without… constraints that are often literally worse than “existing in the real world”, but it's also… not without its problems…

‪they need to invent a voice and spatial chat app that's actually good‬

@hikari huh interesting, we find text *much preferable* to voice, but *only if it has the correct vibe* (which we still have yet to reverse engineer s.t. it can be explained in words)

@hikari fwiw iirc some people were poking at gather.town during the pandemic for a purpose vaguely like this, but it didn't hit the necessary magic for us to like it