Mastodon has a rep, and a select few seem to have quite the investment into keeping it that way. They ran off every friend I’ve tried to point there. It’s simply not worth their time to put up with the bullshit. I can’t blame them. I don’t use it myself (never got into Twitter or microblogging), but I dipped my toes in with kbin since it was a feature. The only person I followed was Alec from Technology Connections, but that didn’t last long because people crawled up his ass and set up shop until he left.
I’m not sure if it’s sweaty basement types trying to keep their corner of the internet “pure” or bad actors trying to poison the space to keep it from blossoming. But it’s obnoxious.
Editing: straight from the horse’s mouth: https://wilwheaton.net/2018/08/the-world-is-a-terrible-place-right-now-and-thats-largely-because-it-is-what-we-make-it/
Whoa, he was on Mastadon in 2018! A very early adopter.
Now I’m sad
Mastodon has a rep, and a select few seem to have quite the investment into keeping it that way. They ran off every friend I’ve tried to point there. It’s simply not worth their time to put up with the bullshit. I can’t blame them. I don’t use it myself (never got into Twitter or microblogging), but I dipped my toes in with kbin since it was a feature. The only person I followed was Alec from Technology Connections, but that didn’t last long because people crawled up his ass and set up shop until he left.
I’m not sure if it’s sweaty basement types trying to keep their corner of the internet “pure” or bad actors trying to poison the space to keep it from blossoming. But it’s obnoxious.
I’m struck by how similar our experience to mastodon was, right down to Technology connections being the only person I followed.