Post AjFkkTm2MWCamWiSvY by webbj@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AjFbKk8fzlesQ8xVVQ by deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org
2024-06-24T10:56:34.753919Z
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“Growth” as a concept does not have to be viewed solely through the lens of Silicon Valley, venture capital firms, or capitalism in general. In the context of the network: some people here, myself included, want to see the network develop along enough to sufficiently challenge the status quo, and dethrone mainstream social networks.For the #Fediverse to thrive, we inevitably have to bring in more people, new communities, and new ways of doing things. We need to build towards better concepts for user agency, privacy, and control. We need to also embrace the fun stuff that brought us here in the first place.
(DIR) Post #AjFkkSUz6Qy2pLjKi0 by deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org
2024-06-24T11:01:37.280733Z
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A non-zero part of Mastodon’s user community has effectively modeled itself on a kind of social Puritanism that is super unfun to be around. It’s gotten so bad that it’s a meme at this point. Just imagine a stereotype of a stodgy librarian who tells you to CW your own lived experiences because they don’t want to see it, and you’re already halfway there.There’s this wild idea that any kind of commerce or barter, any kind of exhange between hands that isn’t the most threadbare mutual aid, is forbidden and bad and going to make this place worse somehow. We’re a network predicated on GoFundMe’s and vast amounts of unpaid labor for hosting and moderation.
(DIR) Post #AjFkkTm2MWCamWiSvY by webbj@mstdn.social
2024-06-24T11:53:25Z
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@deadsuperhero Do people do this because they somehow know about CWing, but not about filtering? If there is a set of words that trigger you, Mastodon can effectively CW it for you.
(DIR) Post #AjFkkUJiLJ8mSyTMQ4 by deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org
2024-06-24T11:02:54.094503Z
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I don’t know what else to say other than, shit’s kind of bad, and refusing to embrace any kind of positive motion to make things better in this aspect is awful. I’m not saying everybody has to pitch in, but some of the most toxic people I’ve come across on here barely lift a finger to do anything other than complain. And they just do that, for years and years.In my headspace, I just imagine a bunch of pissed-off anarchists that all hate each other because they’re the wrong kind of anarchist, and they’re just content to sit back and complain and be miserable until this network rots into the ground.To me, that fucking sucks, and I don’t want any part in it.
(DIR) Post #AjFkkUV3f8DN29mQ6K by deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org
2024-06-24T11:54:37.704943Z
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@webbj possibly, but I think some people also get their rocks off from aggressively telling other people what to do, and how to do it.
(DIR) Post #AjFkkWdzgsYDgRyaJ6 by deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org
2024-06-24T11:09:24.037069Z
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Also, I’m sorry, I realize this probably scans as a lot more hostile than I actually intended.I care about this place. A lot.When I first came to Mastodon, the energy was so different. It felt like people were excited to meet total strangers, tell jokes together, share lived experiences. Now, I just feel sick from this unshakable hostility that sometimes emerges, this feeling that there’s just going to be more drama, most ostracizing, more lines being drawn, more vague unspoken rules.We could build incredible things together and change the face of the Internet as we know it. We could bootstrap a social and technological commons for the good of the world, and make a better form of online communication that doesn’t have the pitfalls that hearken back to Ma Bell and CompuServe and Meta.But we really need to chill the fuck out about a million and one things, come down from our fiefdoms, and be humans to one another again.
(DIR) Post #AjFkkZojtNvdWe1hyK by deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org
2024-06-24T11:11:21.222472Z
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Anyway, I’m sorry, I’ll shut up now. It’s just been eating away at me for a long time, and I needed to say something.
(DIR) Post #AjFnZqwcAqD3JyHwSu by meowski@fluf.club
2024-06-24T13:23:30.097011Z
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@deadsuperhero come on over to thr pleroma side. we have zero unwritten rules