Erin KissaneJun 20, 2024

Men I don’t know have been yelling at me for about 24 hours about how I am promoting toxicity and misinformation and am a narcissist and a bully in replies to my short thread about how it would be super nice to have control over replies here. To give people who for some reason don’t find people yelling at them to be the highest form of online communication a way to participate in public life online.

Many perfectly reasonable comments agreeing and disagreeing, but like…lordy.

Show threadErin KissaneJun 20, 2024

The most recent one is, I guess, accusing me of sending him unwanted DMs by…replying to him in public?

I guess Mastodon is confusing even to FOSS guys sometimes!

Show threadErin KissaneJun 20, 2024
Anyway! I could do without another three days of childishness but the only way to stop it is to delete my posts, and I used to do that regularly but then I realized that actually encourages them so nah.
Show threadErin KissaneJun 20, 2024
(I should say there have been far more reasonable posts than shitty ones, both agreeing and disagreeing with my points. But the shitty ones go on foreverrrr fighting with other people in branching replies and also the longer a post is up, the higher the ratio of angry and sneering replies to regular ones.)
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@kissane

Sigh... I wish I could say "pay no attention to these asshole griefers" and you'd feel better.

Japanese has a grunt for this.

All I can say is fuck 'em and mute 'em. Nothing is worth being upset over an asshole....

Jun 20, 2024 at 5:12amWeb