meta, colonialism
It just occurred to me how uncomfortably close the behaviour of many new Twitter users here, is to colonialism.
Disregarding local culture and population, assuming they know better about what "works", acting as if they're the first to discover this magical fediverse and it is theirs to shape and control. Loudly declaring that they're here to tell everybody how to "make it scale".
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@joepie91 what the fuck 
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@joepie91 I see your point, but comparing it to colonialism feels to me like calling yourself a refugee because you stopped visiting a website.
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@owl To clarify: I don't believe the impact is remotely the same, of course. I *do* think the mechanisms are very similar, and that it is also roughly the same type of people employing them. Like how many of the loudest people around this have a bio full of "USA! USA! The best country in the world!" and so on.
This is not so much meant to imply that it is *exactly the same as* colonialism, as it is meant to recognize that the dynamics behind colonialism are not just a thing of the past, but still very much alive, and not something that (especially technical) folks are isolated from just because they don't work in electoral politics.
(I've naturally been avoiding the 'refugee' term as well, for exactly the reasons you're suggesting)
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Here's a 'great' and extremely blatant example of what I mean: https://mastodon.coffee/@wyndigo/109312041417074156
This is quite literally "okay thanks for building this place, it is ours now"