Possibly unpopular opinion here…but all these complaints about how the influx of new users is impacting Mastodon culture, it just dawned on me that it’s akin to how people speak about immigrants (i.e. “THEY came here, they should assimilate to OUR way of doing things, and adapt our culture”)
As an immigrant myself (in real life) I know first hand the impacts of this inflexible way of thinking. It’s a nuanced topic, but just something for the OG Mastodon inhabitants to consider.
#FoodForThought
@renita I'm an immigrant too and understand what you're saying. I think though that we need to be careful not to act like colonizers in a context where this platform was favoured over Twitter by many as a safe place for those subjected to social injustices, and was deliberately designed to work as it does. #TwitterSwitchers #TwitterMigration