Creatrix TiaraNov 7, 2022

Hey folk - making fun of people who find Mastodon difficult and claiming that it "weeds out anyone too stupid to use Mastodon" or "they're too attached to Twitter so their opinion of Mastodon is suspicious" is really not the move.

Firstly, this was the kind of rhetoric that got me infamously racially harassed my first few hours on Mastodon back when it was super new.

Mainly though - it's unneeded superiority, it's ignoring very valid accessibility concerns, and it's just straight up exclusionary.

Show threadSean CorfieldNov 7, 2022
@creatrixtiara I saw a bunch of people dumping on Anil Dash for a recent post here, criticizing him for "bringing his worksona" and influence here from Twitter -- when he's had his Mastodon account for five and a half years (and has posts stretching back across all of that time). The thread went on to rail against all the Twitter "celebs" that are showing up in the #fediverse
Show threadCreatrix Tiara
@seancorfield I saw that too!!! Super bizarre
Nov 7, 2022 at 8:04pmWeb
Show threadbumble's (🐝) rumple (🦄)Nov 7, 2022

@creatrixtiara

The original userbase, before this current migration, (though I think you already know this, @seancorfield, as I think you've been here for a while so sorry for repeating info.) are a lot of anti-capitalists and they probably see the influx of mainstream celebrities and business owners as encroaching on a space they thought they'd carved out for themselves and made their own.

Not that it excuses the behavior but I think

Show threadbumble's (🐝) rumple (🦄)Nov 7, 2022

@creatrixtiara @seancorfield

it explains it.

There was an article I read a while back (https://xtramagazine.com/love-sex/why-are-queer-people-so-mean-to-each-other-160978) and, while it focuses on Queer people, I think it can be true for marginalized people in general where there's a lot of trauma from their experiences which develops into hyper–anti-trust and a tendency to strike out and cut off others before it can be done to them. Which can often mean attacking your own community, as well.

Why are queer people so mean to each other? | Xtra Magazine

How brain science explains queer trauma, conflict and call-out culture

Xtra Magazine
Show threadSean CorfieldNov 8, 2022
@WammKD @creatrixtiara Thanks for the background -- I am pretty new here (part of the Twitter migration) and while I've spent a fair bit of time in queer and intersectional spaces over the years, I guess I haven't been around many anarchist/anti-capitalist types; and my white/cis/male/class privilege has shielded me from a lot of that trauma. It explains why I've heard that some instances (many?) don't federate with mastodon.social
Show threadCreatrix TiaraNov 8, 2022
@WammKD @seancorfield yeah sure, but like Anil Dash of all people is the wrong target. I've seen people accuse him of being pro-crypto just by virtue of being in tech, when he's straight up regretted how his invention that led to NFTs has been used and has railed against it since day 1