Marco RogersFeb 13, 2024

It sounds like a lot of mastodon people want to post in public but also have everybody leave them alone as if it's not public. As far as I can see, their current strategy for achieving this is yelling very loudly in public posts hoping everyone else will see it and then shift everything around in order to accommodate them.

It's a bold strategy. I look forward to finding out if it works.

Show threadFeralRobotsFeb 13, 2024

@polotek
For some folks this seems to source to having a deeply mistaken understanding of how ActivityPub supports post privacy. (Short version: It doesn't, but Mastodon's UI lies to them about it.)

But yeah a lot is just garden variety obtuseness: They think the rules that apply in their #HOA also apply when they're downtown at a coffee shop.

Show threadMarco Rogers
@FeralRobots the thing that is really wild is watching how this just tracks back to how people love to police space. White people especially are reveling in this new area where they get to tell everybody else how to be and where they are allowed to exist.
Feb 13, 2024 at 5:59pmWeb