Julia EvansFeb 13, 2024

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

Show threadJulia EvansFeb 13, 2024

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”

Show threadNorman WilsonFeb 13, 2024
@b0rk I think there's a small-but-noisy contingent here who left the birdplace to find a place where they got to set the rules. Any suggestion that anything is wrong here or with them sets them aflame. A friend (with a thick skin, fortunately) gets crap because he dares to post black-and-white photos, or describe in neutral terms photo subjects they hate. That may be part of what you're getting.
Show threadJulia Evans

@oclsc i get the impression there's a certain kind of grumpy open source nerd here that's much more common on mastodon than twitter

(and I say this as a pretty big open source nerd who used linux on the desktop for 20 years)

Feb 13, 2024 at 8:54pmWeb
Show threadNorman WilsonFeb 13, 2024

@b0rk Speaking as a sometimes-grumpy guy who has used Linux and Unix on desktop and in machine room for ca. 45 years, I think you're right.

And they've been around in one form or another for at least that long! FOSS attracts them but didn't create them.

Makes me wish I could redo age-20s me, I was too much like them.