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   Arch 💕 (archenoth@chitter.xyz)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 07:15:20 JST Arch 💕

   kinda disheartening to see such a common reaction to a bunch of people wanting to try out the fediverse being "we don't take kindly to your kind around these parts" instead of trying to help people understand better social network hygiene

   because most of the new people i've seen really do seem to be trying their best!

   also, the reaction to seeing so many people ending up leaving because they "got yelled at, and felt bad" being "good riddance" seems so opposite to the kind of welcoming community that originally helped me feel comfortable enough to stick around, when i was first trying to learn how to use masto

   would it really be so bad to put more effort into helping people understand the things they don't know they are doing rather than chiding them for not already knowing?

   we all start from somewhere, after all!

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 07:15:18 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @archenoth part of the problem is that there's infinity of them and a small number of us so everyone has their limits

     what I've observed is that the first N hundred interactions go fine and then at some point it just becomes Too Much and someone loses patience over Yet Another Case of Algorithm Poisoning, but you don't even see the cases where everything went fine

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 07:17:06 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @archenoth not saying this situation is OK, just that it's unsurprising and to some degree inevitable at the scales we're currently seeing

     (tho putting m.s on mute has done wonders for my own personal boundary setting!)