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@jonty@chaos.social Same for many supposedly "offline" applications tbh

It’s important, if you can, to give the new folks a little bit of grace

They’re coming from the most toxic place on earth, a carefully perfected hate engine

They’re expecting everyone to be horrible to them, for many, that’s all they’ve ever known of online interaction. They’re expecting to be manipulated, dogpiled, and abused.

Some folks will slip into their new place and fit right in, others might be a little feral at first

I’m not saying to ignore abuse or bad behavior, I’m just saying, WE can do a lot to show folks how this place works and what we expect from each other

And remember, they’re coming up from the bottom of a cold crushing sea

There’s a lot of nitrogen still dissolved in their blood, and they might need some time to decompress

re: subtwoot 

@Kye@tech.lgbt Given that my roughly-yearly reminder of his asshole-ness happened to be in a thread about fedi, I do not have high hopes

subtwoot 

Maybe some day I'll actually remember that Alec Muffett is an ass, and not try to start a conversation with him again

@djsundog @Are0h Largest marketing budget for any federated system ever, for sure

type of guy who complains when they turn on the shields in star trek because it creates a filter bubble and limits productive debate (exchange of phaser fire)

It's super frustrating to work with computers for a living, because it means I know:

1) Exactly how bad they are
2) Exactly how good they can be under perfect circumstances
3) Why we have 1 instead of 2.

I'm looking for a nice high resolution monitor. Any recommendations?

@y3mz (You probably replied to the Tumblr post right as I re-drafted it?)

With all the noise about adding support, please remember that the biggest EEE threat usually comes from the companies that look nice.

(And also has a history of extortionate billing schemes for redirects when you moved your blog)

There are four genders of grievances with mastodon:

-"the app is shit" (uses the official app)
-"it's not twitter, make it more like twitter!"
-some complete nonsense based on a complete misunderstanding of how it works
-legitimate grievances that older users have been suggesting for years

@prehensile@tech.lgbt I've seen exactly one accurate news article about Mastodon, and *somehow* it was even an opinion piece: nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/11/04/het-i

Everything else has been so so bad :(

Please keep wearing masks, the pandemic isn't over, holidays make it worse, and a lot of us disabled people feel completely abandoned.

@zkat It just makes me sad watching cool people come over, treat m.s as the "default" instance, then rail about how awful the whole fediverse is off of one damned server.

I love being on mastodon cause i can be 23 making peepee poopoo jokes and y'all will laugh and then go back to talking about philosophy or politics or programming or botany or whatever

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