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.

CoSocial
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 threadcatchAug 6, 2023
@cstross @JoshuaACNewman @NoraReed there was also the time he wrote on his blog that if he ever found himself in an elevator with me, he'd shoot me, because i'm a communist.
Show threadNora ReedAug 6, 2023
@catch56 @cstross @JoshuaACNewman what is it with tech guys and elevators
Show threadJeff Miller (orange hatband)Aug 7, 2023

@NoraReed @catch56 @cstross @JoshuaACNewman Proverbially an elevator is where you catch a tech exec or investor as a captive audience and give them your "elevator pitch" like "It's Facebook for gardening, monetized (...)!" in 30 seconds to turn their large signature authority in your favor.

Said like that it makes me think of movie or pop band pitches.

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@jmeowmeow @NoraReed @cstross @JoshuaACNewman it's that but it has to come from somewhere. Is it from going to loads of conference centres where you can identify people in the elevator by their lanyards?
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