to twitter users: i hope this place is good for you.

to existing mastodon users: please make this place a good place to be by not acting like the fucking post HOA and being a condescending asshole all the time. these are both huge cultural problems here that y'all pretend you don't have

this place is mostly pretty good but there's a million little posting subcultures and people really put their hackles up about you not confirming to theirs. consider reigning that in for a fucking week before you go back to acting like open source adoption makes you a living saint
@NoraReed Don’t be a fucking weirdo to strangers challenge (Difficulty: impossible)
@NoraReed 🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻
@NoraReed yeahhhhhh I'm really really hoping people can chill this time
@NoraReed so I can't tell them to take the flags off their posts?
@Kimcpen i literally don't know what that even means
@NoraReed sorry, when I saw you mentioned HOAs, I thought of those really strict associations that don't let you out any decoration, including flags, on you property.
@Kimcpen oh! yeah! i thought there was some lingo i wasn't familiar with
@Kimcpen @NoraReed
I thought you were making commentary on someone in the thread that had 3 separate flag emoji following their screenname.
@Chancerubbage @NoraReed the Mastodon HOA will deal with them soon 🐊🐊🐊
@NoraReed Content warnings would be more fun if the client would render 'em on top of a hugely magnified goatse.
@NoraReed I am shitposting the hell out of today and pushing back against that as much as I can lol. Those folks really do not understand just how bad mastodon’s reputation has become.
@NoraReed seconded. That culture is one of my main reasons I didn’t hang out here as much. Just let people post and they’ll pick up on the norms

@NoraReed 2nd this!

Growing pains suck. But we grow, regardless.

@NoraReed I'd welcome condescension actually, at least it would be some kind of interaction
@NoraReed Yup, no-one gives a shit that you got her first vla bla bla. Let's just be cool and lure them in 😁