Ricki Yasha TarrOther Social Media Sites: Here's a research paper I read the title of that proves my crackpot hypothesis.
Mastodon: Hello, I wrote this research paper, let me take you through what it actually means.
Kevin Teljeur ❄️@RickiTarr I once made a slightly generalist remark about recycling bins. I was held to account, which inspired this.
@kevinteljeur LOL I usually reply that This is just a joke my friend
@RickiTarr This is it, the Fediverse is older (I believe) and very neurodiverse, so even coming back with ‘This is just a joke’ can be a lot. And yeah, my remark about bins (here, they stick the recycling into a compactor, and most of it goes into landfill) was taken at its most literal and policy was debated. It was a lot.
@kevinteljeur I've had this on every social media site to be fair, it's annoying sometimes, but I try not to take it seriously
Leon Cowle@kevinteljeur @RickiTarr @uastronomer I often find the need to call this place Zealotodon, for reasons exactly like what you're describing. It can be amusing at times, but often it can be quite tiring.
Loukas (They/Them) 🏳️⚧️@kevinteljeur @RickiTarr you expressed much better a point I was also thinking about recently, from a slightly different angle https://mastodon.nu/@Loukas/110810064872353233
Loukas Christodoulou (@[email protected])
@[email protected] it really does. And I think there's a particular extra unpleasantness in the experience because unlike twitter it's all framed in a kind of 'progressive' and concerned way. It's easy to ignore someone called "@.magahat9991" but when it's people who are just sincerely evangelical but insensitive to the point of harassment it gets under my skin in a different way. I guess I'm saying the slow blade penetrates the shield.
@Loukas @RickiTarr Ha, I like yours too!
A mutual on here does good-natured shitposting, and she might write something like she’s going to stop drawing and marry an elderly prince for castle or something, and people reply in earnest with advice, or why she shouldn’t do that. She partially inspired my bit.
@kevinteljeur @RickiTarr so many men who have learned machine language but not social codes.
Mr. Completely@kevinteljeur @RickiTarr you're hitting one of the main culture clashes: earnestness. The Fediverse is a fundamentally earnest information environment, which overall is refreshing. But it means that jokey content in the ironic mode endemic to the general internet is likely to draw earnestly missing-the-point replies (aka ernies or earnies), sometimes en masse. Now a good earnie can be delightful in the right context but when they come from ppl you basically like/empathize with it's just tiring.
@kevinteljeur @RickiTarr I find this tricky bc I value both high-information-content earnest discourse with well informed people on nearly any topic *and* making deadpan ironic absurdist jokes about any nonsense that seems funny to me in the moment and have no problem "code switching" between those modes. But that assumes that others can read the high-context cues and know which is which. I've learned to be a bit more careful about that here out of respect for the earnest side of the culture.
@mrcompletely @kevinteljeur Earnestness is just a part of the culture here, I like the variety of people
@RickiTarr @kevinteljeur I totally agree. It's just interesting watching new social dynamics form. I certainly welcome a more intellectually robust environment and feel more at home here than I have in any public online space in quite some time. I just hope there's room for multiple modes of conversation including the fun and silly side.
@mrcompletely @kevinteljeur Me too I love learning about people and how they interact
Ian Tindale
Coyoty@u0421793 @RickiTarr @kevinteljeur @mrcompletely Without a wig over your ear, an earnest earwig may make an ear nest.
Blake 🇵🇸@blake @kevinteljeur @RickiTarr yeah, I have a very postmodern view of online culture I guess, comes from being online since the dawn of time