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 at risk of proving my own point... yeah, I've definitely noticed that mastodon is *full* of useless replies. Almost every time I look in the replies to a post on here—technical, political, joke—there's at least one reply from someone who appears, for all intents and purposes, to have zero clue. "Oh, you made a joke; you obviously require someone to reply with a dry, boring, pedantic explanation of YOUR OWN DANG JOKE"
[sighing intensifies]
Julia Evans
Sam Livingston-Gray