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   Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ (arossp@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 13:37:18 JST Aaron Ross Powell ☸️

   I really want Mastodon to be the next big thing, but it frankly has a culture problem that is going to kill its broader adoption. After quite a long time here, and a few days at Bluesky, the comparative experience looks like this:

   Bluesky: "Everyone's posting about the latest weird inside joke, and I'm excited to post my weird twist on it!"

   Mastodon: "Jokes offend me because I was born without a sense of humor. I demand that you wrap all levity in a content warning or I will FediBlock you."

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     Bruce Mirken (brucemirken@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 04-May-2023 13:37:17 JST Bruce Mirken

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     @arossp Maybe I'm an anomaly, but I have been been on Mastodon since December, posting all sorts of snarky and controversial stuff and have never had an experience remotely like that.

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     paprikapink (paprikapink@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 09:08:24 JST paprikapink

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     @arossp Maybe this time it's true, but for DECADES appeals to stop jokes at others' expense - racist, sexist, homophobic, fat-phobic, insensitive to the disabled, transphobic - have been met with wails of "you have no sense of humor! you're killing comedy!" And yet comedy thrives.
     FWIW, I've been here pretty much daily since Nov and I haven't experienced any of these humorless people.
     Mastodon probably won't be the Next Big Thing, but I think it will eventually be The Thing.