fedi meta
A pattern I keep seeing: some guy gets defederated, banned from their instance, or even just told "no" by people, for very good reason, and then spends month going around in every other social venue telling anyone who will listen about how "you can't say anything on Mastodon" without ever mentioning the reason for their grudge.
When asked for examples, they bring up their own situation, and misrepresent it as if the reason were something trivial and ridiculous, rather than the usually much more severe thing they've done and/or the pattern of shitty behaviour over a long time that they *actually* experienced consequences over.
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@joepie91 Honestly, I have seen this pattern since online communities have been a thing.
Just that these people usually complained in other communities or platforms, so it was harder to see.
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@Vampire Yes and no. I've certainly seen a similar pattern many times in many places over the years, but I find the fedi version to be a little different - it seems to be much more intensive, with said people basically taking every opportunity to start complaining again.
You literally can't mention fedi in *any* context without them latching onto it and trying to turn the conversation into their personal rant. I've not seen that kind of behaviour, at least at this magnitude, for other social spaces. Isolated incidents of that, sure, but not as a structural pattern.
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@Vampire To clarify, the badmouthing I'm observing is in other spaces too, not on fedi.
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@joepie91 Yes. I just focused on the incidents I've seen so far on fedi, as I'm not active in other spaces anymore.
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@joepie91 Fair. I still think this isn't new, just more visible as one can just make an account on a different instance and keep "participating" while in older community that person was just "gone".