Roni Rolle Laukkarinen

I'd be a millionaire if I got a coin every time I heard one more "there is no alternative social media, where should we go?" comment. Now especially after the unsurprising LinkedIn/Microsoft spying news.

The funniest thing is that when we suggest Fediverse alternatives, people lose interest as soon as they've asked.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

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Show threadDaniel Schildt4h ago
@rolle Classic example of people saying they want more privacy, but not wanting to do any bit of effort to get any of it. 😓
Show threadWTL4h ago
@rolle “It’s too hard” “No one I follow is there” etc, etc.
Show threadFeralRobots4h ago

@rolle I spend a lot of time on BlueSky & I see 2 typical reactions:

POC often say "Nope too much crypto-racism". I was here in 2022 & saw how a lot of them were aggressively driven away after migrating from Twitter, so I get that.

White middle class intellectual people OTOH respond with derision. Basically, fedi is uncool. If there are reasons they're varied, but the one constant is that it's uncool, for very white middle class American jr high school values of 'uncool.'

Show threadRoni Rolle Laukkarinen3h ago

@FeralRobots I understand there are UI concerns, cultural differences, and so on. But it's mostly psychological.

It's like, "I'd like to be healthier, but ewww, vegan food!"

Show threadFeralRobots2h ago
@rolle I wish it made that much sense! Someone I otherwise respect said fedi felt like being "constantly glowered at by a German."
Um, OK.
Attitude over there seems to be that now that there's an "ATmosphere" conference, ActivityPub is dead, & a lot of people - again, people I otherwise respect - get positively giddy about how that'll show those uppity fediversalists what's for.
Show threadtoothpaste_sandwich3h ago
@FeralRobots @rolle What is crypto-racism? How were they driven away? I wasn't here yet, then, never having been into Twitter in the first place.
Show threadFeralRobots2h ago

@toothpaste_sandwich @rolle
I'm gonna punt on the first question because they usually just say 'racism.' 'Crypto-racism' was my term.

Examples of how:
Fedi c.2022 was VEHEMENTLY opposed to quote-posting. Fedi culture viewed quote-posting as inherently bad, because it could be used to call in brigades. Black folks on Twitter did a LOT of quote-posting as a form of positive callout - 'here's this thing & here's why you should care about / celebrate it.' ...

Show threadFeralRobots2h ago

@toothpaste_sandwich @rolle
... As a result, there was a lot of aggressive blocking & defederating that was disproportionately directed at black people. Whole servers where black folks had tried to establish community got defederated.

Then there were communications styles. American & African black people are often much more direct in communication style, & that was often received badly. People got brigaded in the more subtle ways that fedi culture favored over quote-posting.

Show threadSquirrel_7674h ago
@rolle They all get scared and scream for a week then acts like nothing happened and repeat the cycle once a month so i think you would be trillionaire
Show threadShadow, First of His Name 3h ago

@rolle

but... but the algorithm...