Francois Balloux

I recognise so many names on Mastodon, including people I fell out during the pandemic sometimes over fairly trivial differences of views.

I often wonder to what extent those conflicts were primarily caused by the toxic nature of twitter.

Anyway, I'm not planning to continue fighting Covid wars on here, and would welcome patching up our pandemic differences with anyone so inclined.

#Covid #twitter #polarization

Nov 7, 2022 at 9:59amWeb
Show threadGabriele PollaraNov 7, 2022
@FBalloux it is funny starting over again, re-following the same people. Almost feels like a load of people have moved house all at once!
Show threadRoss ☄️Nov 7, 2022
@FBalloux this joke may become true, but not how it was originally imagined…
Show threadRev. GothAliceNov 24, 2022

@zexpe Amusingly, I'm at this particular juncture in the network because I'm importing my block list from the bird site. Each one is an "are they still worth ignoring" re-evaluation. (Now with the option: should I just block the whole server?)

It's curious when the one you blocked explicitly expresses a desire to bury hatchets. But I do not forgive easily. This is the strangest one so far, though.

Very much not how imagined, or written. 😜

Show threadAna RiveroNov 7, 2022
@FBalloux
Welcome!
Show threadAli Nov 7, 2022
@FBalloux yeah it’s weird seeing posts from people on here that long ago blocked me on twitter
Show threadlapinNov 18, 2022
@FBalloux a quick personal thank you to you for helping me stay sane during the pandemic—the constant covid-anxious discourse was really damaging my mental health, and your calm voice of reason was of great comfort to me.
Show threadMartin PlöderlNov 19, 2022
@lapin @FBalloux
Same here! People like you make it difficult to leave Twitter, and now glad to see you are here and already have many followers!
Show threadBicawayJan 2, 2023
@FBalloux hi. So I thought you'd be posting here (at least copying your twitter posts). That would be great for those not wanting to use Twitter. And to build the Mastodon community, there is no other way. Thx.
Show threadDavid Colquhoun on BlueskyMar 20, 2023
@FBalloux
Hmmm the toxicity was not helped when,on 28 Aug 2021, you said about iSAGE
"I feel they're remarkably incompetent and just awful, with no saving grace whatsoever, and their dogwhistle policies just make me want to puke."