Sophie JaneNov 6, 2022

Reminder to please CW anything to do with politics and particularly “look at the awful things these right-wingers are doing”. Being able to choose when and how to engage is important and makes a big difference to the overall mood of the timeline.

And please don’t boost politics posts with no CWs either - I’ve been seeing a lot of that recently from new arrivals

Show threadSophie Jane
Remember doomscrolling? Remember the constant low-level anxiety of “can’t do anything about this but I can’t look away either”? You have the option not to do that here on fedi, and the option not to inflict it on others
Nov 6, 2022 at 12:48amWeb
Show threadSophie JaneNov 6, 2022
(Incidentally, 100% of the “you’re just too sensitive” and “you’re not the boss of me” replies to this so far have been from middle-aged white cis dudes)
Show threadjorinNov 6, 2022
@ghost_bird the most painful part of people from twitter joining fedi is them trying to enforce that culture here for sure. love it when I asked an acquaintance of mine to tag politics and he was like "well when you think about it eveyrthing is actually politics" and on god please read the fucking room innit
Show threadAurynn ShawNov 6, 2022
@ghost_bird ugh I'm sorry you're dealing with that 😞
Show threadSophie JaneNov 6, 2022
@aurynn Not too many of them, to be fair. It’s more amusing than anything
Show threadFergalNov 6, 2022
@ghost_bird I have so much to learn, hope I can do that here.
Show threadSophie JaneNov 6, 2022
@FergalK 💜
Show threadCath #FightForDecencyNov 6, 2022
@ghost_bird Don't think it is doom scrolling , you don't have to follow. But right now the reality that Britain is facing with a far right Govt in power is rubbish. So people want to talk about it and fight back. Alot of us have migrated from Twitter and some of us are still there. But what we have to say is relevant. People are fed up.
Show threadSophie JaneNov 6, 2022
@dem_cath And you can choose to be courteous and put your conversations under a content warning, if you like. It’s precisely because I live in Britain under a fashy government that I want to be able to choose when to engage and when to get some respite
Show threadRichie HollandNov 6, 2022
@ghost_bird @dem_cath I empathise and see many don't want to have to doom scroll, I get it, but it could be seen as a bit fashy to tell others what to do on political posts though, especially if they are coming from a very political platform looking for community of like minded "not fascist" viewpoints but have other interests also?
Show threadCath #FightForDecencyNov 6, 2022
@ghost_bird me too.
Show threadJ.R.BeeNov 6, 2022
@ghost_bird i tried very hard to make my Twitter space nice- it was mixed
Show threadSophie JaneNov 6, 2022
@jrbee Even with heavy-duty blocklist subscriptions I found I couldn’t stop well-meaning allies boosting bigotry into my timeline as “look at this awful thing” or “lol what a bad opinion”. It’s a major reason I left
Show threadJ.R.BeeNov 6, 2022
@ghost_bird that and a lot of folks stopped engaging and just started proclaiming. The quiet ones I did talk to left and the only thing I could often get engagement with were polls 😕
Show threadOddPlzNov 7, 2022
@ghost_bird @jrbee this is something I have really enjoyed in the day since I came over. It's just been... Not awful. Here's hoping people don't just replicate what we hated about twitter. Keep educating Sophie <3
Show threadRichie HollandNov 6, 2022
@ghost_bird as an online activist I do something though. 🤔
Show threadSophie JaneNov 6, 2022
@richieholland And that’s cool. But you possibly know the feeling I’m talking about anyway?