EnglishMobster
Maybe.
I didn't know I had ASD until I was an adult. Growing up I just knew I was weird and different and strange and nobody liked me. I didn't know why, I just knew I was doing something wrong and I simply wasn't "normal".
I would have given literally anything to be neurotypical, for a very long time.
When I was 19, I got formally diagnosed. For a few years after I was still hoping that it would somehow be "cured" and one day I could be like everyone else. I dunno if that made me a turncoat; just someone who didn't accept who I am.
I've since come to terms with it and accepted that it's an intrinsic part of me and that I wouldn't be the same person if I didn't have ASD. Like I can imagine what my life would be like without depression; I can't even think about what my life would be if I was neurotypical. I'd be so completely different that I basically wouldn't be "me" anymore.
But I only got to that level of acceptance because life worked out for me; I learned how to effectively mask, I have a good-paying stable job in my dream field (AAA game development), a significant other, and even a couple friends.
From what I can tell, Elon may have money but he's miserable. I can see a world in which he blames ASD for his misery (like I once did), and I can see how wanting to "cure" it makes him think that maybe he'd be happier. That's probably why he's killing monkeys with brain chips.
Elon has publicly claimed to have Asperger's (or, as it's known by the modern DSM, "ASD Level 1").
While I don't know if that's a self-diagnosis or the truth, I also have ASD Level 1 so I can somewhat understand his thought process... sometimes.
The fact that the platform makes the community isn't necessarily something I'd consider at first, and I don't think Elon considered it either. I really do think Elon was mad about how much people on the internet disliked him, so he made an impulsive bid to kick 'em out and tried to buy the whole platform. At some point someone talked some sense into him and he tried to back out, only to realize he was trapped in the deal and couldn't back out.
So the only thing he could really do at that point is double down. Kick the people off the site that he wanted gone. Find a way to kick out the bots that were clearly irritating him. Unban people who he thought were unjustly banned. There are easy and simple solutions to all of those things, and although they aren't popular that's sort of the problem with ASD Level 1:
Failure to make eye contact or read social cues properly
Challenges in establishing or maintaining conversations
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- Apprehensive behavior
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- Trouble shifting focus
Expand that behavior up to a community of millions of people and you can start to understand Musk's behavior. It's fundamentally a community, with social norms and mores that aren't immediately obvious to those with ASD Level 1 (myself included). ASD makes it hard to have a grasp on why a community is there, and if you're a megalomaniac on top of that I can see how it'd be very easy to just say "Eh, I'll change it to work for me" without care for how it affects everyone else that uses it.
So you have him just making all these dumb-looking changes because understanding and empathy isn't his strong suit. He just does what he thinks will fix "the problem" and assumes that users are a given.
Eh, I've modded the Disneyland subreddit on Reddit for about a decade now. Disney doesn't care as long as you say it's non-official community.
"Omni" for a certain definition of "omni" after all.
At a certain point you have to expect that he chooses to do it. After all, in Genesis (lmao autocorrect tried to suggest "Genshin Impact") creating the world took God 7 days (well, 6 days + 1 day to rest and admire). Surely someone omnipotent could've done it quicker - so it's either that or he simply chooses to take longer. ;)
The other way around is supposed to work but is currently broken.
Bear in mind that kbin.social (the first general-purpose English-language Kbin instance) was created in... May 2023. Our Benevolent God Ernest has only been working on Kbin seriously since January 2023.
When I joined in June, it was mostly Ernest talking to himself, with a few other randos from Lemmy who were curious about this not-Lemmy thing. A couple weeks before I joined, Ernest was in here completely alone. Getting 100k people randomly show up a month after he released the first public alpha wasn't exactly in the cards, I don't think - so he's been putting out fires that come with "oh shit my little toy project now has thousands of people using it overnight".
That part I don't think exists yet. Mastodon lets you do that, but I think Kbin's intended use case is that you follow magazines which are a collection of hashtags.
You press the follow button on the individual then you go to the "Microblog" section of the homepage, I believe,
Also, you don't need to ping everybody; you can delete it.
Generally any kind of superglue will be fine. Elmer's glue might even work if you're in a rush or don't have other materials. There will be a visible seam, and my experience with both is that it's quite easy to break the bond (especially with Elmer's glue).
What you really want is plastic cement or something that'll melt the plastic slightly, as that'll give a stronger bond. Plastruct is what I use, but there may be alternatives in your region. This will also leave a seam, but the strength is far stronger than regular glue.
Another way is to do what cosplayers do and use a soldering iron to melt the plastic together (do this in a well-ventilated area). This'll leave a seamless finish without any visible gaps, but only really works on larger models that you're also planning to coat/sand.
I think a fix is coming in the next update. But you can also install Firefox for Android and it should fix it - plus you can then grab a bunch of Tampermonkey scripts for appending the instance names, auto-hiding posts you've already voted on, etc.
Doesn't seem to have federated with Kbin just yet. :(
You totally can view Kbin content. Make sure you're on the "Subscriptions" feed and not the "All" feed.
Additionally, on the sidebar you can go to settings and turn federation off. That'll only show stuff local to Kbin.