Tim HolmesNov 22, 2022

I hear new people noting how chill, tolerant, and pleasant Mastodon is.

Mastodon isn’t chill or tolerant or pleasant. It’s a tool… a foundation on which to create and maintain a culture.

It’s those who’ve been on Mastodon, run servers, and served as admins who did the hard work and created the culture you now enjoy.

Now, it’s your turn. The only way it stays tolerant and chill is by us doing the work to keep it that way.

A good example of, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Show threadColman Reilly
@TPOHolmes that misses the ways the tools shape the culture. Twitter is intended to increase “engagement “ and that has consequences for culture.
Nov 22, 2022 at 7:56pmWeb
Show threadTim HolmesNov 23, 2022
@Colman I understand other services are manipulative, but there’s nothing inherent to a social network that make it chill or tolerant. Those attributes may be more common due to an affinity for the ideals behind a distributed network, for sure, but that makes my point all the more important. It’s about to be overwhelmed by the masses. Ideally those masses would understand the value of the current culture and, equally, understand their responsibility in perpetuating it.