LillyLyle/Count MelancholiaStonekettle with his 250k followers claims he was told he was "unwelcome" on Mastodon.
Someone want to tell me why?
Is it because he has so many followers?
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@LillyHerself Or: who is "they"?
"Everyone on Mastodon" seems like a pretty unlikely answer. OTOH I can think of times when large parts of the fediverse have picked up torches and pitchforks for very flimsy reasons.
Nihl L'Amas@fishidwardrobe @LillyHerself I forget which server Wil Wheaton joined, but he did not get a warm welcome. I looked it up once and I recall thinking it looked like a somewhat lazy operation (no posted policy or moderated servers).
@NIH_LLAMAS @fishidwardrobe What a shame to lose Wil Wheaton!
@LillyHerself @NIH_LLAMAS Aaaand that was the time with the pitchforks I was referring to.
Andrew Crawford@fishidwardrobe @LillyHerself @NIH_LLAMAS wil wrote about his experience here:
The world is a terrible place right now, and that’s largely because it is what we make it.
As most of you know, I deactivated my Twitter account earlier this month. It had been a long time coming, for a whole host of reasons, but Twitter’s decision to be the only social network tha…
@evermore @fishidwardrobe @LillyHerself I suspect a lot of the pile-on was fascists seizing an opportunity to use a misunderstanding to harass him with fake nasty progressive criticism (they do enjoy that).