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   Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 23:57:21 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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   • Julia Evans

   @jacob @b0rk so, I'm bummed to hear this, because I value having both of you here. I think a lot of what you're talking about is healthy and positive: having a lot of engagement, and getting a lot of bidirectional conversation. But when that engagement is negative, it sucks. How can we fix this?

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     jacobian (jacob@social.jacobian.org)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 23:58:00 JST jacobian

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     • Julia Evans

     @b0rk precisely: I don't want to have to be so careful about what I say, the value in formats like this for me is in being off-the-cuff. I edit myself pretty carefully on my blog, don't wanna do it here.

     Like, if I say something offensive the fact that a bunch of people will call me out on it is a feature, not a bug. But realizing that I can't use the words "open source" without inviting folks to relitigate the “open source" vs "free software" debate in my mentions is a huge bummer.

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 23:58:02 JST Julia Evans

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     • jacobian

     @jacob yeah i like mastodon but i definitely feel like i have to put disclaimers on every single thing i post and also repeatedly ask people to please not start fights in my replies in a way that I didn’t have to on twitter

     thankfully people really have been willing to not start fights though and I do get a ton of great replies if I’m super careful about how I post

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     jacobian (jacob@social.jacobian.org)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 23:58:06 JST jacobian

     I think the bloom is off the rose for me about Mastodon. Between the utterly crap experience whenever a toot goes mildly viral, and the obnoxious HOA-ish attitudes about what "should" be “allowed" on Mastodon, this is feeling less and less like a place I wanna super invest in. Bummer.