Alex Simpson
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%.
husbandpanda 🐼@collin I actually assumed it was done because people do not want to give Twitter any credence or credit to indexing anywhere, if information is crawled or otherwise. I noticed some folks particularly burned by Twitter are doing it because *twitter is awful and we don't want to talk about it* Literally like not linking to twitter, etc.
@husbandpanda yeah, what good are peoples mute filters then? Why not just mute the term and stop talking about it if you don’t want to give it credit?
@collin I understand your point, but it does oversimplify an issue. Rhetorically: Do you just ignore the site you avoid, do you filter it, do you mention it indirectly?
I see this as containing of nuance, with economic impact and societal.
I see this as containing of nuance, with economic impact and societal.
@husbandpanda I think if you can’t bear to say it’s name, maybe you don’t need to be engaging in conversation about it?
Anthony Castelli@collin I agree. I find myself muting people or unfollowing people because of their terms they make up. I’m on the platform to stay away from all of the drama and shit, yet everyone just uses this as an echo chamber.
Noelle@collin I think people sometimes use those terms to avoid saying Elon Musk or Twitter, but it does make it hard to mute it when so many different words are used for the same thing.
@noellemitchell I know why they do, but like, just don’t cos then people can’t mute them for themselves and now you’re forcing people to see stuff they don’t want to 🤷♀️
@collin Yeah I agree, it makes it difficult to mute when there's 50 different words that mean the same thing