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   Erin Kissane (kissane@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 00:32:31 JST Erin Kissane

   Day two of waking up to people heatedly squabbling over instance security in my mentions from a tangentially related post I made over the weekend.

   I have to calibrate by reminding myself that this is the place someone said that my posts are fascist (I’m not paraphrasing) bc I suggest that Mastodon is both weak and strong, which is how Hitler talked about the Jews.

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     Erin Kissane (kissane@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 00:32:30 JST Erin Kissane

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     At the moment, unless I swear off talking about tech, muting threads is the only option for not having this shape my whole fedi experience, which isn’t great—ignoring people causes a whole other level of bad feelings—but I’m just not going to engage with the hyperbolic FOSS-fight register.

     Matthew Lyon repeated this.
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     Erin Kissane (kissane@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 01:14:56 JST Erin Kissane

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     To be clear, I will be fine! Just maybe less active in this exact place.

     But look: I think finding people who are having trouble with your network/platform/protocol of choice and attentively, actively listening to what they need, and then inviting them into collaborative ideation and building (or just boosting their work) involves different skills than jumping to proposed fixes + critiques.

     I think most people can build those skills! It just takes practice, and OSS has weird starter norms.