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Also, I’m sorry, I realize this probably scans as a lot more hostile than I actually intended.

I care about this place. A lot.

When I first came to Mastodon, the energy was so different. It felt like people were excited to meet total strangers, tell jokes together, share lived experiences. Now, I just feel sick from this unshakable hostility that sometimes emerges, this feeling that there’s just going to be more drama, most ostracizing, more lines being drawn, more vague unspoken rules.

We could build incredible things together and change the face of the Internet as we know it. We could bootstrap a social and technological commons for the good of the world, and make a better form of online communication that doesn’t have the pitfalls that hearken back to Ma Bell and CompuServe and Meta.

But we really need to chill the fuck out about a million and one things, come down from our fiefdoms, and be humans to one another again.