Communities

If I had a business card, the title would most probably be community liaison or something similar. Silly that me, the one who’s almost all her life been sort of social dropout, seem to be the one to wake the company up on the community issues.

Irony of the matter also is that the most prominent communities that I’ve been active in, don’t intrest me anymore. Once active at MuroBBS, nowadays I find the atmosphere somewhat suffocating. Same goes with irssi, though I only did some themes and chatted on the IRC channel. Kuukuppikunta has started to lose my intrest, partly because one of the active admins has almost stopped IRCing. Bittivuoto has been dying slowly for more than 6 months.

On the other hand…

Free/Libre/Open Source issues have started to intrest me more. I’ve activated myself at Finnish Wikipedia, and have tried to participate more on Ubuntu and localization issues, though I work way behind the scenes.

The main reason for this is lack of time and intrest. Time is well spent at work, intrest is gone with the decline of attitudes of users at some communities. I’ve started to strongly dislike the “RTFM N00B!” attitude that has become more and more visible on both MuroBBS, #muropaketti and also at #irssi.

I don’t think they miss me that much.

I’ve actually quit reading most of the old blogs too that I’ve used to follow. No knitblogs, no political blogs, no friends blogs; not that I’ve got any. I haven’t got a LiveJounal account and so those people I’ve been most intrested to read about have been left out. The thing is, I don’t care about that either, anymore. I’ve shifted to reading FLOS blogs.