This can be an unpopular opinion, but...While I found stupid the ghosting and I condemn his behavior, I wouldn't expect a 20yo to know how to manage those kind of situations.
Also, trying again, trying harder, would not be a symptom of weakness: if you're both willing to do it, you should; to clarify: trying harder does not mean to be more patient or tolerant towards things one does not like, but working to find better solutions for old and new problems.
I don't even think we're heading in the direction of the article, we're just a small deviation from the main road, I just hope we're not riding a dead end road. But the biggest I can imagine for "us" is a situation like Linux in the early 2000s - and we're still far, I'd compare "us" more to openBSD
That's something I'd love to be real but it's not. Google is still dominating, as reddit and x, let alone meta or tiktok. There are small niches like us, but VERY small
Ahahahahahah I'd love to see Five eyes disrupted, but man the US leaders are the worst, not even an AI developed with comic strips and trash 80s movies could have ever imagined them
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