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[tielan]

Remember the days in ye aulde fandom when someone would just stop talking to you and you never worked out why?

Ghosting, before it became common.

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Just put in my expense requests for the start of May.

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Hockey training has been cancelled because we don't have a coach, and we don't have a game on Sunday (long weekend in Australia: the King's birthday). I'm trying to get people over to the local club for dinner and drinks but...it's always a bit tricksy. Just me and a couple of other women, I think.

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[kore]

Remember the days in ye aulde fandom when someone would just stop talking to you and you never worked out why?

Or as I like to call it....last month! Lolsob

Then again a whole ton of socializing still seems to take place on Facebook and I will never ever do Facebook and I see people on like Instagram and Tumblr and even AO3 who seem quite happy to communicate only via likes etc....so idk. I think a lot of talking is also happening in discord and text chains which I don't really do either. I am a turtle crossing the information superhighway.

Tl;dr Maybe "It's Not Us It's Zuck"?

[tielan]

Oh, it's definitely Suck.

And yes, a fair bit of social stuff seems to happen on FB and Threads (for me). Bluesky just doesn't work for my style of thinking and communicating. And I prefer conversation to 'likes' which feels too easy and meaningless. Which, I guess, is what Da Yoof want these days, so...

That said, Threads is starting to use ads, so that'll soon go the way of FB I reckon.

It's all a shitshow, frankly.

[kore]

Oh, there's Bluesky. There was a great literary convo I saw there the other day but it's less space then even Twitter and the threading is horrible and nobody uses hashtags anymore. But at least I saw ppl talking.

(Altho after a while it deteriorated into two white guys snickering about how Jane Eyre Be Horny. no thank you)

[adafrog]

You don't have a coach?

[tielan]

Team 1 has a coach, but Team 2 doesn't.

[adafrog]

Too bad.

[beatrice_otter]

I hate being ghosted. You never know if it's something you did, or if it's just a case of someone not having object permanence for people, or just random stuff happening.

[tielan]

The uncertainty was what made it worst. A reason, you can live with. But the never known? PITA.