So I’m just gonna start a discussion:
I’m curious how y’all came to discover egoism, as known through Stirner.

I personally had read ayn rand first because she is a big name among atheists, so my initial impression of egoism was... not great. I was also a liberal on the verge of anarchism at the time(2010-12ish), so it was one of my introductions into anarchic thinking. As I grew and learned, I found myself leaning towards mutualism but feeling more individualist, but disliking that individualism was seen as more capitalistic(right-wing). I kinda just settled with the idea that I wasn’t going to fit into the way society defines anarchism and socialism(hello nihilism), and stayed as a mutualist leaning individualist for roughly 5 years.
Being the nihilistic shitposter I am, I stumbled upon a meme page that shared a relatable existential meme called “god why am I laughing at max stirner memes.” Queue the “max who?” and subsequent googling to find out he’s the better form of egoism that I never knew of. So I started looking up more and liking more meme pages(only to end up unliking a good amount cause they were shit ppl who misunderstood the whole property thing), as well as joining groups. Long story short, I found Spectres about a year before it split and became spookticles, and here we r.