@davidgerard they'll probably just proceed to alienate that userbase away with time by making incomprehensible project decisions.

honestly im mostly disappointed in those queer shitposters because if you're moving from birdsite to bluesky and stick around even once you know the hostile nature of the leadership... idk, it feels like at that point you're just a glutton for being alienated by big tech?

i mean if that gets them going sure, but i'd personally prefer a healthier approach.

@davidgerard i guess, but i somehow still can find more respect for the people moving to say, cohost, than the people moving to bluesky.

like youre moving to a platform that's still centralized (cuz decentralization is one of those things only tech nerds like me care about, its something im willing to concede on) but at *least* you're not sitting with leadership that openly thinks the people who want you dead are a valid voice to be heard.

@glitch like, you're sitting on mastodon telling people on another platform that they should move to your preferred platform, i'm sure you can appreciate they are unlikely to take that seriously

@davidgerard at least twitter has the excuse that people like jack were just genuinely stupid libertarians at the time who invented mass t&s over many years (which musk pissed away with the acquisition). same deal with reddit. to put it mildly, the average persons stance on moderation was a lot looser back then.

the idea of completely deplatforming only seriously took off as an "acceptable" opinion after it became clear how many social media sites were responsible for the mess that was 2016 US elections.

and no, like i said - i can bring up more respect for people that move to cohost (or heck, even back to tumblr if we're being honest here). i don't care if you move to fedi or not; for many people it's not the right answer and i get that. what i *can't* comprehend is why people would, after leaving a site because the owners openly despise them, move to a site where the owners would again equally despise them.

also - i realize you might be trying to annoy me here but i do not use mastodon thank you. i have not bought into Gargrons vision for the social media network mastodon, i prefer the fediverse tyvm  .