Josh Yagley
Ian BetteridgeThis is still one of the greatest ever put downs of Mastodon, to be fair.
Kate Watson@ianbetteridge Nah, the best social media hand-knit ☺️
JoYo@ianbetteridge implying knitting something is cheaper
Parade du Grotesque 💀
Space Burger Steve 🌌🍔🤪@ianbetteridge The other kids would occasionally make fun of me for wearing clothes my Mom made... until Halloween. Definitely a perspective thing on whether this is a put down or a self own. 😉
Trojan Duck@ianbetteridge And you still have that sweater decades later because it was so durable.
Listerine Lavender Mint@ianbetteridge until everyone is on hand knit Twitter, then it’s cool
Linza@ianbetteridge Bruh you did not just throw shade on hand-knit clothes
Bernie The Wordsmith@ianbetteridge Not a bug but a feature
Reiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@ianbetteridge self knitted stuff usually looks a little unusual, but it lasts a lifetime.
katzenberger@ianbetteridge No money could ever buy what I got for free from my mother.
Animystic 🪐@ianbetteridge "Hand-knit social media" actually seems like a high compliment.
vegancoderWas that designed as an insult?
I'd give a lot to once again wear something knitted by my mother
BlackPixelDust: Art 
@ianbetteridge Hey hey hey!
Sometimes the knitted social media last longer, doesnt pill as much, and stays warm even if you're caught in a downpour! You can wear that social media for 30 years!
... Hmmm. 🤔
How can I hand knit myself a social media...
Tony Wells@ianbetteridge
"We have twitter at home"
"We have twitter at home"
martin@ianbetteridge Reminds me of a running gag on Goodness Gracious Me "I can make it at home for nothing. All I need is _____ and a small aubergine". https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b008tph1/goodness-gracious-me-series-1-episode-2
Elizabeth@ianbetteridge Made me snicker. Sounds like my mom.
Mycams@ianbetteridge @ProfLouiseL Old me now knows that the homemade version of anything was:
a) made with love and attention
b) a one off, unique piece
I’ll take roll your own over commercial any time thanks!
a) made with love and attention
b) a one off, unique piece
I’ll take roll your own over commercial any time thanks!
natriumchloride@ianbetteridge adorable comparison, social networks aren't exactly the same as a pair of socks though
Simon ZerafaSaid by someone who never actually coated out a handmade item clearly 🙂🤷♂️
Eric Jennings@ianbetteridge I honestly don’t think this is a put down.
I guess it depends on how good your mom was at knitting… especially since most clothes you buy nowadays fall apart right away and the stuff our parents and grandparents made by hand was quality and lasted.
Cyrille Besson 🇨🇭Well, I'd personally compare it to a homemade garden VS GMO agriculture.
artisanrox🤔
this would mean Twitter is a pre-collapsing Bangladeshi factory and Threads is a Lululemon distributor
Prof Prachi SrivastavaVariation on a theme:
'I can make it at home for free! All I need is one smaaalll aubergine.'
Rep. Eric Gallager (no "h"!)@ianbetteridge I wouldn't even consider it a put-down!
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey@ianbetteridge You're looking at it the wrong way. It's more like, "Holy shit, I can't believe you knit me a sweater. Who even knows how to do that? Thanks, Mom."
Doctor LURK@ianbetteridge it is funny, but I don't really consider it an insult! Supportive family, home crafting, and making do with less are all pretty wonderful ideas to me, and I'm proud Mastodon feels like that right now.
Lazy Q@ianbetteridge #Mastodon is basically if you saw a building on fire and filled with poison, everyone inside dying horribly, and you figured the solution wasn't to ban fire and poison from buildings, but to build two separate buildings, one full of fire and one full of poison.
Yes, *that* dawn person@ianbetteridge @Canageek And if I’ll buy her the yarn, she’ll make me a lesbian too.
Obsolete@ianbetteridge
That’s why I’m here! It’s just like that!
That’s why I’m here! It’s just like that!
E. Murphy, the name you know@ianbetteridge "Man walks down the street wearin' that, you know he ain't afraid of nothin'."
Kofi Loves Efia 
Analog AI@ianbetteridge Ah, definitely a difference in perspective: for me, it's a boost. Probably being (a lot) older, I picked up more of my parents' money pinching they learned in the very lean 1930s (when they were children).
@ianbetteridge got so much better since then to be fair
Akshay | అక్షయ్@ianbetteridge Note: Knitted not Thread-ed.
A Tattered Scrapbook@ianbetteridge If ex-Twitter were comparable with, say, Gap, then, maybe.
But this is like the guy parked behind the shopping mall, selling you a “guaranteed Gucci”, and criticizing your home-made sweater…
TisTree@ianbetteridge How did hand made become a bad thing?
Emelia 👸🏻@ianbetteridge @shlee idk about you, but my mum's sewing was pretty fantastic.
Shlee fooled around &@thisismissem @ianbetteridge To be completely honest, I can understand that this toot could be seen as punching down at knitting and fuck those people.
I see this as more of in support of the DIY homeground marxist kind of system we can built on our own without capital.... but you know *cough*
Knitting is poltical! Fuck yeah knitting.
@shlee @ianbetteridge eeeh, yeah, I'm still team home made clothes! But yes, we're cery DIY and that's a strength, not a weakness.
Black Curtain Studio@ianbetteridge I'll take hand-knit over store bought any day, thank you!
Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻@ianbetteridge they cant make me take it as a put down
Gaëtan Perrault@ianbetteridge I'm not sure this is a "put-down", so much as an acknowledgement of the different values of both.
Sure, Mastodon is the "hand-knit, made for you" version of Twitter. But we're all here because we like the hand-knit stuff.
You may have memories of being forced to wear some crap that your aunt made in the 70s. But nobody here is being forced to wear anything. We're here voluntarily enjoying the sweaters. Often even paying more for them.
muıııo@ianbetteridge But then it turned out the expensive one was Primark fast fashion crap and started falling apart after a single wear 😬
Oliver SchafeldIs it a put down for Mastodon, though?
44 billion for a knitted sweater seems… a lot.
Rosamundi@ianbetteridge as someone who was the only person in a hand-knitted school jumper (in a school of 1,200+ pupils), I, uh, feel this on a visceral level.
Colin Rosenthal@ianbetteridge Alternative version “Your uncle’s got the exact same one’s in his warehouse. Nobody’ll be able to tell the difference. What are they going to do, read the label?” (It’s possible I’m a living ethnic stereotype:-) )
Peeble streamer on Doop 🟥🟨@ianbetteridge I mean hand made is going to have less of the bad stuff in it.
devolute@ianbetteridge In the sense that it will never actually get finished, absolutely yes.
thefathippyMade to last, with love and affection? 🤷♂️ 😁
Many Colors, Many Forms, Many Flavors, Maybe More@ianbetteridge a comfy thing made by somecreature close to me who cares about my wellbeing instead of by an unfeeling, profit-greedy corporation?
…wait, which one was supposed to be lesser, again?
…wait, which one was supposed to be lesser, again?
Vega@ianbetteridge
Everything my mom (and aunt) ever knitted is better than any sweater I bought
Everything my mom (and aunt) ever knitted is better than any sweater I bought
Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping@ianbetteridge and then that hand-knit, slightly prickly sweater lasts you for decades with the expensive one being thrown out after two seasons.
Tattie (old account)@ianbetteridge don't forget the small aubergine
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️@ianbetteridge ...and she did, and it was warm and snuggly and soft and everytime you put it on, you knew someone cared enough about you to put tons of free labor into making you more comfortable. 💕
@ianbetteridge I'll grant you it's funny, but to me the difference is more like that between homemade mac&cheese and the weird stuff sold under the same name by Kraft
Greg Bell@ianbetteridge @cathygellis we already have a social network at home and you never play with it any more
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