Collin DonnellI love #Mastodon, but I hate all of the weird Newspeak people use. It’s not “birdsite,” it’s Twitter. It’s not “Space Karen,” it’s Elon. If you use weird terms you made up, people can’t easily mute them who don’t want to see that stuff.
Peter Cohen@collin The forced vocabulary also smacks of a particularly self-righteous form of gatekeeping that I have absolutely no tolerance for. When I first got on Mastodon I was deluged with endless public posts about how I was supposed to comport myself here. My first thought was, "I came here to get away from that horseshit."
@flargh Yes. 100%.