LongwingOct 10

Mastodon feels like the future the 1980s promised us. "Oh look, a post from my friend at hacker.space, and what a funny comment from some guy on gaysex.cloud, perhaps I should follow them, they seem witty."

It feels like you could turn a corner and wind up in a tearoom filled with furries discussing existentialism. Across the street are anarchists arguing loudly with socialists about how best to stick it to the capitalists.

Just down the way is a photographer who only takes pictures of bees.

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@Longwing this and the town square “criticism“ that actually highlights how well Mastodon fires the definition of a town square are precisely the vibes I like about the fediverse (or at least the bits I see; I am aware there are back alleys of various unsavory bigotries, whole Nazi bars behind the holographic filter of moderation that hides them from me, and private harassment campaigns— to say nothing of the Anglo-centrism that I personally find so familiar it is nearly imperceptible).
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@Longwing all of which is to say, I like it here. It’s not perfect; it can’t be perfect because nothing can. It can be made better, but we (for some value of “we”) need to recognize that this is community building and policing and that’s not a purely technical problem with purely technical solutions (a thing we all wish to see and solve one day), but a personal, interrelational problem that requires continuing effort and engagement: a social problem.
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@Longwing I need to find that town square article or screenshot for a “these are the vibes you’re looking for” post…
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@Longwing
Found it!
https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/
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Good job! 😁
@Longwing
Oct 13 at 2:34pmWeb