Do you like the people on the Fediverse?
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@evan The vast majority are amazing but.... there is a tiny subset that wants to police everyone else to enforce their rules and it just gets SO OLD
The human brain is wired for "purity" — whether it's how we eat, how we dress, how we speak, etc. we all have it to some degree. As with any extreme, the ones who take purity to an extreme where they either tell others to change or complain that others affect their own purity by being impure, … it can irritate those who are naturally or who work to be more moderate.
@jet @evan Well said. It's especially ironic as the entire point of the #fediverse is to build your own feed, block who you don't like.
I'll never understand why these PurityPolice don't just stop following the person? Why do they feel compelled to change them? I get it, this is the curse of any social media but the Fediverse prides itself on personal freedom and self expression. It's very much at odds with this.
@scottjenson @jet it's because of the Fediverse feed. You aren't posting to your own feed; you're contributing to a commons, which is collectively managed.
I'd be very interested to hear how behaviour and attitudes have change on mastodon.social since removing the Fediverse feed. Any news on that?
I have never before heard of removal of the fediverse feed.
Well, we all learn about things at different speeds.
@evan Yes. Even if I blocked you it ain't personal and I hope you're doing well. We're all on a journey and what a place this is turning out to be!
@evan I follow people either if I know them well or if I look at their profile and am interested in their posts. Some people I follow are: @Kaliah , @Haven_of_dreams , @elliottman98 , @Ethan_edwards , @samtupy , @maysoncabo , @cartertemm , @Evdog1245 , @stevo399 , @lexipic , @grace , @MS26 , @MutedTrampet , @BrailleScreen All these people post really cool things. I have a small number of people I follow but like seeing everything that's posted on my home feed. All these people post really cool things.
@evan Most of them, a few crazy's like everyware.
Evan Prodromou The poll doesn’t show on my NoeBB-based site, so I’ll just answer via write-in.
Yes, but… There are a lot of really great, kind, interesting, intelligent, and/or engaging people here that I’m glad to interact with.
I’ve also come across an amount of vaguely revenge-of-the-nerdish behaviour, where angry folks show up in the comments and demand basic things be hidden behind content warnings or that I follow some rule from their instance on my server I pay for, and that they’re only seeing posts from because of some choice someone on their instance made, and they often don’t take get lost for an answer.
@evan I went with "Yes, but", but it could just as easily have been "No, but". I've met some truly great people here who I consider friends. It also seems to house more than its fair share of assholes. I find myself reluctant to talk to people unless I've known them for a while. These days, if I interact, I tend to keep things clinical.
@mike who are some good ones?
@evan Well, there are some that I've known since before I joined Mastodon, like @kev and @tatertot, and @matthartley. I've known them all for years now.
Some of the people I've met here are @adamsdesk, @rl_dane, @cmccullough, @haubles, @Gina, @joel, @Greylinux, and @markwyner.
I also have good relationships with the admin and moderators of this instance.
https://fosstodon.org/collections/116766555232424251
There are others, but that's a quick and dirty list.
Awe. How lovely to see this, Mike. I’m glad we connected here, too.
Hi, Evan! 👋🏻 I’m not an asshole. At least I think I’m not. I’ve been following you for a while.
@evan @Kev @tatertot @matthartley @adamsdesk @rl_dane @cmccullough @haubles @Gina @joel @Greylinux
Thanks @mike appreciate it mate.
@evan, unlike @markwyner I am an arsehole (just ask my wife!) but I'm a nice arsehole...I think. 🤣
😂 I love this thread. It’s why I love Mastodon. Community is rad.
@evan the vast majority of people I've interacted with on the Fediverse have been wonderful people. I'm aware this isn't necessarily representative of the Fediverse as a whole. I feel that my instance does a pretty good job of moderation, and I am somewhat selective of who I follow.
@keydelk any good people in particular?
@evan lots. Some of my favorite people to follow are @GeePawHill - always has great insight and seems like he would be a lot of fun to hang out with. @pluralistic, @WeirdWriter, @cstross and @susankayequinn are some of my favorite writers on here. And I discovered some awesome video games by @eniko and by @clarus
@evan@cosocial.ca only some of them
@anemone gimme three names!
@evan@cosocial.ca Hmm, hard to pick 3, but
sun@shitposter.world
vriska@lizards.live
subnetter@shitposter.world
sun@shitposter.world
vriska@lizards.live
subnetter@shitposter.world
Yes! So many awesome earthlings on here, nerding out on the weirdest topics. My ever-curious brain is so grateful for all of you!
@airwhale name some names?
@evan
I specially dislike the people who makes polls.
@paelnever That can be fixed.
@evan @paelnever
I'm the opposite.
There's nary a poll that I don't boost, Evan.
@Guillotine_Jones @evan
Sure, polls are boosts magnets, that's exactly why some people make it, just hoarding attention in the purest "influencer" style.
@paelnever @Guillotine_Jones it'd be more fair if everyone was really boring.
@evan @paelnever
Over time, I, for one, have gotten really good at being boring, Evan.
Bong hits 4 Jesus.
@evan Yes, but… no social platform isn’t without having awful humans participating.
@evan Yes.
Occasionally when a "but" gets in, so do the multiple levels of block.
Then we are back to plain "Yes".
@evan Yes, most of them are at least decent, but I've had to curate to find the ones I really like. I don't think this is very out of the norm though, so I'd say yes mostly.
@Kaliah who do you really like? Name some names!
@evan People I enjoy following: @FreakyFwoof @pawpower @KaraLG84 @BTyson @MariahL @lulu_bear just to name a few whose posts I enjoy seeing around.
Yes, very much, but sometimes they don't like me. It's usually a misunderstanding.
@evan yes but my god some people. Yesterday I saw someone "well akshually" defend the validity of the word race in a discussion about the genocide of non-whites in Argentina. Like really dude?
