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A lot of new Twitter folks still seem to be having a lot of trouble understanding that no, this is one place where their wants and needs are *not* at the top of the list, and instead the needs of vulnerable communities are. And I'm growing extremely tired of this entitled refusal to accept that.
Every single fucking time marginalized folks build something neat, the rest of the world comes rolling in and declares that They Must Now Be Catered To, damn the consequences. And the answer is no.
@joepie91 you seem to be knowledgable on this, and i don't mean this in a trolling way, but I have a hard time figuring out whether I am welcome here. Left twitter more than a decade ago, beiefly rejoined recently and been looking for a mastodon instance I feel I could trust for 1 yr. Found it, only to see a lot of posts telling me, in general terms, I should fuck off. So I don't feel welcome on twitter, never have, but this place seems to hate me too. Should I take your advice & fuck off?
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@gmc It's very much dependent on how you interact with the community. The problem with the current Twitter wave is that it's so large that it's overwhelming everybody, and entirely too many people are not following the very simple rule of "hang around and integrate somewhere for a while before declaring that stuff needs to be changed".
So essentially, by this point the lesser evil is "scaring everybody off", because the alternative is basically our own Eternal September, and the death of what the fediverse was. And yes, that will unfortunately have some overcatch.
If you *do* follow the integration rule, however, and you are respectful of the existing community norms (including the 'weird' ones) even if you don't initially understand why they exist, then you certainly are welcome here.
This place is just fundamentally different from Twitter, and for good reason. It will take time for people to adapt to that, and experience/understand why these norms exist. Some people are not willing to take that time, and that makes them a threat. That's pretty much what it boils down to. If you *are* willing to take that time, there is no issue.
