Fedi Is for Losers
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The former group doesn't care about popularity, just the free exchange of ideas with the intent of forming a new understanding.
The latter group needs a stage and a megaphone, and measures the success of their beliefs by how many people they can get applauding, even if it's just a fraction of the entire audience.
I stay clear of the latter.
So the Fediverse is a fake community like all the rest of them.
Unless you’re saying you were banned for not favouriting someone’s post (which is literally unbelievable), there’s something missing in that story. You don’t even mention if the post was pro, against, or neutral. I understand not wanting to dox yourself, but being too sparse on details doesn’t look good for your assessment either.
> So the Fediverse is a fake community like all the rest of them.
The fediverse is not a single community but a collection of communities, that is the whole point. You can move around and find the right server for you.
That's the truth of the context we're dealing with here, the pendulum has swung far enough that racist lunatics are incredibly common in positions of power on these instances.
Here is one example i found in 5 minutes, this is the first result for "academic mastodon" in search engines.
> Users of Scholar Social are expected to have the literacy to understand that "reverse discrimination" is not real, and so attempts to re-centre discussions of marginalized people around the feelings of the privileged will be taken as manipulative behaviour undertaken deliberately in bad-faith. (E.g. white people should not demand that people of colour put CW's on every discussion of race; a straight person who reports a queer person for writing "I hate straight people" may find their own account suspended.)
Like, whoever wrote this is a blatant bigot, and yet most of the high profile mastodon instances are run by people like this.
I also find it interesting, last post you were suggesting people consider the perspective of an uninformed outsider. Now it's "Oh there's context inside the community". Take your own advice.
Try to do something more than just react blindly to what people are saying, it makes for an unhappy life.
Honestly I think going back to basics and just thinking about how prejudice affects individual people at the most fundamental level would do you a ton of good.
Allowing everyone and everything, all the time, is the exact opposite of a community, it's simply a crowd. But even in a crowd, there are limits to what people will put up with.
And just like in real life, belonging to a community or group may require you to be aligned to a certain mindset/opinion that is important to the group.
Is there a reason for this ?
"Fork it" or "patches welcome" is not hacker for go fuck yourself. It can be, but that is up to the speaker in each specific instance, and if this article is how this person thinks then perhaps it often is when spoken to them.
I don't understand this part. The people who left X after Musk's takeover seem to be mostly people who were on the winning side of Covid, i.e. the side that used the state and media apparatus to coerce people to participate in a medical experiment.