Aral Balkan
Free speech may be invaluable but hate speech costs just $7.99 a month.
Nov 11, 2022 at 8:34amWeb
Show threadK.-H. ZimmerNov 11, 2022

@aral

Might I ask you for a favor?

If you'ld use a CW for your twitter-related posts I would have a cool chance to ignore them.

Alternatively it would be superb if you could mention the word twitter in such posts (with or without hashtag) so my filters would detect that word – and then hide the post for me. :)

Show threadAral BalkanNov 11, 2022
@khzimmer2 Hi there. I don’t usually use content warnings for trivial things but I do use hashtags and I have very little interest in talking about Twitter going forward so you should be fine in the future :)
Show threadAdrian KosmaczewskiNov 11, 2022
@aral that almost sounded like a MasterCard commercial meme
Show threadDarius KruythoffNov 11, 2022
@aral even that is already crumbling
Show threadCardiff GiantNov 11, 2022
@aral ACKSHUALLY… you can tweet the N-word for free!
Show threadCleveleys NewsNov 11, 2022
@aral dude, you're surely not saying that everyone who pays $8 will be spouting 'hate'? Or that real hate is going to be allowed on the platform? A lot of us are here because we have our own issues with Twitter, and extreme and biased opinions is one of the things we'd be glad to see the back of. So to find them here is quite disconcerting. Twitter seems to be the best place to complain about Twitter, if that's really what you want to do.
Show threadAral BalkanNov 11, 2022

@cleveleysnews Dude, welcome to the fediverse. Might I suggest your first act here shouldn’t be to try and school someone who‘s been here from the beginning (and advocated for it for years) in how they should be using it or, worse, to tell them (on their own instance, no less) that they should go somewhere else?

I hope you take a moment to look around and get to know the place before attempting to write the rule book and tell other people to leave. (In fact, how about you don’t do that ever.)

Show threadCleveleys NewsNov 11, 2022
@aral so much for free speech being free.
Show threadChappsNov 11, 2022
@cleveleysnews @aral Free speech is wonderful, and it has consequences. You know that. We don't like it when we get our butts burned, but it's a good lesson about the Fediverse.
Show threadCleveleys NewsNov 11, 2022

@Chapps @aral here's two lessons I've learned already from being here:

1. People who repeatedly says "the fediverse" to new Mastodon users are mainly sneering elitists who want to make them feel small.

2. The same sneering elitists always try to talk those they consider below them into backing down, because they want to have the last word.

I'll say one good thing about Twitter - it was a school of hard knocks that taught you to spot narcissists and bullies, and to never, ever back down.

Show threadBroke-ass Utah MomNov 13, 2022
@cleveleysnews @aral but you get a pretty check mark or something, too… right? Like, immediate gratification for the competitive couch potato?
Show threadTy RossNov 11, 2022
@aral lol, well played
Show threadAral BalkanNov 11, 2022
@cooltxchick Merci muchly :)