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   Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 04:33:20 JST Sick Sun
   I also noticed a more social thing, something I noticed as well with Wikipedia. Which is that as we got a lot more users (I was around since wiki had less than 200 articles) the interactions took a real downward turn. We were all excited because we were getting a ton more people from academia with valuable domain knowledge to add to wiki, but it came with detectable negative social baggage. like disagreements would turn mean and personal a lot faster and people were manipulating the highly permissive wiki system to elevate themselves and use rule manipulation to undermine others ability to edit based on personal grudges. I didn't make the connection until just now that there are parallels to some of the influxes of people who came here and brought their pathological social culture with them.
   
   It isn't quite just scale, it's not that people turn mean in larger numbers. It's that there's a type of person who hides in crowds to act on their need to punish and build themselves up by tearing others down socially, and they ride the wave of new people into new social landscapes, like rats on sailing ships.
   
   So it isn't the influx of lots of people that is bad, it is that social predators hide in the influx.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 04:37:37 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     >So it isn't the influx of lots of people that is bad
     Something something organic growth.
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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 05:13:33 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     > ... their pathological social culture ...
     
     Ah, yes. The initial and subsequent Mastodon growth waves were full of that. The Fediverse has never fully recovered.