Derek Powazek đCriticizing mastodon continues to be the least fun thing to do on mastodon.
Yâall realize that accepting criticism and mining it for good ideas is just what you have to do when you run community projects, right? And that lack of criticism means youâre failing, because people donât criticize things theyâve given up on, right?
"Colin"@fraying yes, we realize this because a hundred people before you have already voiced this exact same "insight". most communities aren't lacking in ideas or feedback, they're lacking in labor. complaining doesn't fix that. like you point out in your first post, it just makes things worse. and yet you went ahead and did it anyway đ
@colin you missed my point completely.
@fraying i think i got your point: criticism is good, no matter how delivered and even if unrequested. itâs up to the receiver to sift the wisdom from the shit and then resolve the source of that criticism themselves. my critique here, in your words, is a âfucking giftâ and you should say âthank youâ.
honestly iâm not trying to caricature you. read back through your thread and judge if the above is a reasonable interpretation. iâm pretty much just exercising the advise youâre giving, against you, to see if you still believe in it when on the receiving end.
honestly iâm not trying to caricature you. read back through your thread and judge if the above is a reasonable interpretation. iâm pretty much just exercising the advise youâre giving, against you, to see if you still believe in it when on the receiving end.
Jason BrownIf you understood his point, think for a moment about the part where people stop caring enough to even offer a critique.
@zota to be exceedingly clear, the moment @fraying and i quit critiquing each other is the point at which we can each enjoy the space of our own communities: right?
that if you know a critique isnât going to be well-received (as, literally, Derek announced in advance), itâs perfectly acceptable to just go a different way: to let that community project do what you think is a mistake, and instead more actively engage with some other community project that you agree with more. that quite often leaving be and building something new is a better gift than âcritiquingâ that the thing other people have built for themselves is a poor fit for you.