Jason Perlow ✅🐧🍔 ✍️In the 1980s to get online, in addition to grokking your PC you had to know how to configure a modem and a comms program, needed phone numbers for BBSes or online services. Nothing was just handed to you. Because of this friction, the user community we were left with were mostly -not- stupid people. Did we have trolls, yes. Even smart people can be toxic. But it wasn’t on Twitter or Facebook scale and they were easily dealt with. We can replicate that with this paradigm.
Jay 🆘@jperlow I deeply disagree that using the Fediverse ought to be hard to keep out simpletons. Not to mention that “smart people”, especially tech-heads, are some of the most abrasive and disagreeable personalities there are.
@jsit someone will make it easy. It’s open source. If someone doesn’t make a better aggregator site for choosing servers, or if the official client doesn’t do a better job of it, someone can fork the code for it and build a better one. The right wing extremists can also run their own fediverse and build easy to join serverlists than we can ban accordingly. It’s all good.