Notices by Tom Coates (tomcoates@mastodon.cloud)

What are we thinking about the Medium Mastodon server? Good move in the right direction or flavor of the week move from the company that never figured out precisely what it’s for? I’m considering moving over to it? Should I?

I’m still spending a bunch of time on Twitter, mostly because it still feels like the space I can feel most useful / the best place to let out my frustration and rage in dredging reality around Musk. I don’t entirely know how to separate myself from it or even if I should. No one else really believes I’m being useful there, but weirdly I do. And I don’t like to cede ground. I cant see an end to it though unless Twitter itself withers and dies and that’s going to take a very long time.

I've done a long thread about this on Twitter, and I'm not going to do it again here because I have jobs to do, but I've been experiencing massive hate speech and abuse on Mastodon since yesterday. With MASSIVE content warnings for EVERYTHING if you want to get a sense of the problems we have and how important moderation is, you can see caps here: http://plasticbag.org/mastodon

I cannot content warning this stuff enough though.

@dia @OceanRedux nah I’m good

@Goalkeeper @dia @OceanRedux I’ve been out and gay for thirty two years. You think calling me these names has much effect any more? I mean I’d rather you didn’t, but I’m pretty much immune to it.

@DEERBLOOD @dia @Goalkeeper @OceanRedux no, I’m good

@YTFoidLover1488 @OceanRedux @SchizoCynic @Twoinchdestroya nah I’m good thanks.

@OceanRedux sure I am.

@Twoinchdestroya @OceanRedux I mean it’s just a bit sad really. I can just block all your servers one by one. Won’t even take long. I don’t like getting messages like these but mostly I just feel sorry for you guys, so broken and sad that you can only feel good about yourselves when you’re trying to hurt people. Do your parents not like you? Are you impotent? What’s the problem here?

@SchizoCynic @OceanRedux @Twoinchdestroya no I’m good thanks

I think I’m done with twitter now. A full afternoon of just relentless insults and retweeted and harassment and people calling me a faggot and saying how glad they’ll be when the platform is free from people of color, Jewish people, women and the LGBTQA+ community. I don’t think I can do it any more. Not even for fighting.
But I feel defeated. I feel like there’s an endless war that I’ve been fighting in since I was a teenager and we thought we were slowly starting to win and now we’re losing.