Nora ReedAug 6, 2023
anything to avoid actually calling in your boys to tell them to shut the fuck up sometimes lol https://cosocial.ca/@evan/110839737998715967
Evan Prodromou (@[email protected])

Hi, fediverse Web and mobile client developer. What if you added a speed bump in the reply flow to slow down users for just a moment? "Do you really want to reply to X? Will they appreciate your reply?" Maybe just the first time they reply to someone; maybe easily turned off in settings. If it makes people think for just a moment, it might help with making the fediverse a more welcoming place for women.

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Show threadNora ReedAug 6, 2023
the mansplaining problem is a cultural one with mastodon because it's full of cis men who have put more thought into their linux flavor of choice than they ever have about whether their behavior is useful or wanted. it cannot be solved with the twitter popup that says "are you sure you want to post this?" when you tell someone to eat shit
Show threadNora ReedAug 6, 2023
i don't get mansplained to nearly as much on bluesky, and that's not because bluesky stumbled on some kind of magical feminist UI design, it's because mastodon is dominated by FOSS nerds, who have a terrible culture
Show threadCharlie StrossAug 6, 2023
@NoraReed FOSS as a movement owes a lot to Richard M. Stallman and Eric S. Raymond—in all the worst ways imaginable.
Show threadJoshua A.C. NewmanAug 6, 2023
@cstross @NoraReed I choked down a couple chapters of The Cathedral & The Bazaar before concluding that any idea Eric Raymond had was much less important to Eric Raymond than Eric Raymond is to Eric Raymond.
Show threadCharlie StrossAug 6, 2023

@JoshuaACNewman @NoraReed I'm pretty sure that ESR is the sort of insecure authoritarian who is attracted to totalizing ideologies because they offer certainty—hence, the kind of libertarian who goes full Nazi at the flip of a switch.

I spent an enlightening hour with him on a firing range in 2007, listening to him rant about muslims in a way that would have been instantly familiar to any German in 1933. The "goes full Nazi" opinion is a witness report, not meant as hyperbole.

Show threadJoshua A.C. NewmanAug 6, 2023

@cstross @NoraReed He practically brags about the self-importance that props up his frailty in that book. I can muster zero surpriseds at your IRL experience with him.

“A thing is best when it is maintained by its users” is a good premise, but I don’t want to share enough community with that guy to implement it anywhere he is. You can’t build a community on contempt.

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@JoshuaACNewman @cstross @NoraReed "You can't build a community on contempt" applies to so many places where I see someone come in with a "You're doing it wrong, let me fix all your problems" attitude and--it doesn't even matter if the incoming person is /right/ about the basic facts, it's exactly what you say. Contempt is soil subsidence below the foundations of community.
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