i really appreciate that we can have great conversations here on mastodon if I’m extremely careful about every single thing I post and often include disclaimers (“please don’t explain rebase to me”) to avoid repetitive annoying replies that I can predict
but I still feel like I need to be SO much more careful about my posts than I was on Twitter and I wish it wasn’t like that
the replies to this are pretty bad, a lot of
- "well it's not a problem for ME”
- "just don't read the comments"'
- "have you heard of blocking/muting”
- "have you ever considered that on social media in general you need to be careful about what you say because folks don't have much context”
- "tech people are just all assholes”
- "no julia, the dozens of people trying to explain to you what a git branch is are just trying to HELP, you should be grateful”
@b0rk I've followed your blog for years and even bought your zines. I hope those comments don't get too much under your skin.
It's cool that you can distill these subjects into something not sounding pretentious and elitist, but instead your style portrays curiosity and openness to ideas and learning - it's quite unique because of that, and not all of the IT ppl get it.
Julia Evans
rojun