meta, the Book
Look, I get that it's funny to dunk on that Mastodon for Dummies book. But there's also a bunch of comments along the lines of "oh no now we'll have to deal with the normies" which ehhhhh.
Like, this is a book that - while I haven't read it - explicitly says "Adapt to Mastodon's ways" on the cover *and* also talks about non-Mastodon fedi things. That already puts it miles above nearly every journalist(tm) article about fedi.
Does this *really* deserve the same kind of scorn? Because a bunch of comments I've seen are starting to sound much less like "annoyance at influx" and much more like actual gatekeeping. Can we... not, please?
Like, if someone is willing to read a whole book to learn how to use Mastodon the right way and not step on people's toes, that seems to me like something that should be encouraged.
meta, the Book
@joepie91 if someone's reading a book to learn how to use a social platform they're probably not even a normie in the first place! the normies are all just moving to instagram or facebook or tiktok (or just… still using twitter). people are so worried about "normies" "taking over" mastodon or whatever but like, the entire design of a federated platform basically makes it so that doesn't happen!
meta, the Book
@joepie91 lol I thought that book thing was fake 😊