Only speaking from my own experience with it, but to me the way that most left-leaning social media communities seem to see "trying" as the same as "grifting" is both deeply problematic and personally difficult
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Like yeah we can debate the various problems of our designed algorithmic information amplification but that doesn't mean "wanting communication to a large number of people about something" is inherently evil
When I started the developer success lab, a lab *I had gotten funded to produce open science* which was already wild, someone on here laid into me in a long series of private DMs because in their view the colors and boxes on the first website "looked like sales". Nothing to do with the merit or content of my work or the actual things happening.
A website I was only allowed to make using a shitty template from some web team, low on my priority list to fix tbh.
Meanwhile we were doing things like standing up an IRB! at a tech company! Publishing open methods about human experiences while citing feminist scholars! I was out in public explaining our transparency and work until I was blue in the face, with academic-level consent standards for our research! But no, web design and aesthetics I guess
This is a silly example, but if you want interesting work to happen you can't take every opportunity you can to stomp on the necks of people trying things
Many people make the mistake of thinking, "these are the people I can reach, therefore these are the people I must badger" while remaining oblivious to the vast majority of the world they cannot reach, that those people are trying to do something in the context of
