Mastodon Migration
Mastodon, we have a problem.
@Teri_Kanefield: I am beginning to think I waste my time and energy on social media... I came back to read my comments... and really, I feel ill.
@Popehat: ...find me on Bluesky... more comfortable there, and less like I'm likely to get screamed at...
@mmasnick: Same is mostly true for me.
@mattblaze: Getting close to joining you... The yelling here is getting to be a bit much.
@GottaLaff: No I am not tired: I'm SICK and tired... of negative contrarians...
Virginia Murr
@mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze @GottaLaff
Wowzers. Mr. "Musk is the only one who can save Twitter ... and RFK< Jr. is a great presidential pick Dorsey"?
Listen, I get that platform harassment sucks (have had death threats against myself & my *kids* while on Twitter ...) ... but if a person left Twitter for principled reasons, embracing Dorsey's platform (where there *will* be harassment as well) as a fallback makes no sense.
I don't get it. Truly.
Mike Masnick ✅
@VirginiaMurr @mastodonmigration
Just as a point of clarification, Bluesky users scared Jack off. He deleted his account and does not run the site or even have a presence there. He's off focused on a different tech entirely (nostr) after Bluesky management took things in a different direction than Jack wanted.
Virginia Murr
Yep, I get that. But, it's his "baby" and it is my understanding that he is still on the Board. So, day-to-day activities or not, it's his.
Florida atheist:
@mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze @GottaLaff@mastodon.social
Pffft reminds me of blue'balls sky...
Cryptocurrency masturbating
Mike Masnick ✅
@jimmygnarly @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mattblaze
See? That's exactly the kind of smug, ignorant nonsense that drives us away from this place.
Laffy
@jztusk EVERY platform has these issues. It's not Mastodon, other than the CW police. @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze @TechConnectify
Technology Connections
@GottaLaff @jztusk @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze people say that, but I had an easier time on the bird site with about three times as many followers than I do here.
At this point I think the sorts of harassment that popular accounts experience are just impossible to sympathize with for most folks. Is that bad? No. I think it's hard for us to communicate the things that are bothering us.
But the lack of caring is... well I don't think it's very nice!
jz.tusk
@mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze @GottaLaff
Sigh. I've been getting that feeling too.
You might want to add @TechConnectify to that list too. He just posted a multi-toot about how Mastodon is turning into a bummer for him.
⁂ Justin (StayGrounded.online)
@GottaLaff @TechConnectify @jztusk @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze Furthermore, trolls are on the lower end of the "reasons to avoid Twitter" list while the owner is posting antisemitic conspiracies. Meta quite literally enabled genocide in Myanmar. The Fediverse may require a greater degree of personal responsibility but supporting those companies by encouraging one's following to go there is, IMO, morally contemptible.
Laffy
@TechConnectify I had 60K followers on Twitter, and had a terrible troll problem. Compared to that, Mastodon's a piece of cake. Then again, I don't have 60k followers here. And I agree. I thrive on "nice." @jztusk @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis
Man, this comment is irritating. It is not possible to have a conversation about the problems of Mastodon without self-satisfied sanctimonious wankers derailing that topic into a conversation about how much better Mastodon is than Twitter.
Mastodon will not continue to be better than Twitter if every time somebody tries to point out a problem with Mastodon, they're shut down with a smug conversation about how much better Mastodon is than Twitter.
And frankly, I find it absolutely infuriating how the Mastodon self-congratulation crowd thinks that Twitter is some sort of standard to beat. If Twitter is your standard then the bar is on the floor.
@GottaLaff @TechConnectify @jztusk @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze
David Bruchmann
@siderea @JustinH @GottaLaff @TechConnectify @jztusk @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze
I'm not sure where it should go to in your opinion.
Here are many different people / accounts, some also unpredictable, and it's just impossible to predict or filter the desired or acceptable answers -- even of course blocking is possible.
I'm beyond the "self-congratulation" attitude, I blocked a whole type of people (unrelated to this discussion).
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis
You're not sure where it should go to in my opinion? Why would you be sure? Why would you even think you have any idea whatsoever? What a remarkable sentence. I said nothing at all about where I think "it", for any a number of plausible "it"s, should go. I am not discussing where I think "it" should go. I'm discussing how people are engaging with this conversation in a really shitty way, and I do not appreciate people trying to hijack the topic to something else.
@JustinH @GottaLaff @TechConnectify @jztusk @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
@siderea I just block people who post prickly replies. Sorry, but that includes you.
Leftist Lawyer
Mike Masnick ✅
@Wraithe @GottaLaff @jztusk @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mattblaze @TechConnectify i agree there's a place for both and i hope both succeed. I do think the need of some to attack the other (usually out of ignorance) is kind of annoying, though.
Wraithe
@GottaLaff @jztusk @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze @TechConnectify absolutely endorse what @GottaLaff is saying here.
I’m WAY too small an account (both here and even more so on BS) to personally get these issues. But I see a lot of posts on these issues on BS now.
The big issue is that people need to stop treating this like it’s a sport: “my team” v “your team”
I WANT BS to succeed…
Wraithe
@GottaLaff @jztusk @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze @TechConnectify I also want MASTODON to succeed - these are not opposing goals. “Microsoft does not need to lose for Apple to win” and vice versa.
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