Scott Jenson3d ago

Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.

I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!

Show threadScott Jenson2d ago
OK, this is going even MORE sideways so I need to make a few things clear:
1. I took a complex point and made it poorly
2. My goal was to ask for more inclusiveness
3. I am sickened by what happend to BlackTwitter and I don't want it recur
4. But I can't speak for BlackTwitter nor should I
5. I apologize to black mastodon users for making such a poor comparison
6. I'm not endorsing "AI Slop" they were a foil to make my point
7. I'm certainly NOT trying to compare AI bros to Black twitter (but, as I said, I can see how people made that connection. I'm trying to correct that here)
Show threadCassandra is only carbon now

@scottjenson I'll suggest that you reflect on what the implications of including (2) in the list are when you've made it very clear that you see "inclusiveness" as demanding that people are more tolerant of AI.

Especially by placing (2) above any actual apology for your earlier comparison this reads very strongly as your doubling down on the claim that Mastodon being "inclusive" should necessarily put exploitative and extractive tech products over the marginalized people hurt by those products.

Apr 6 at 6:15pmWeb
Show threadCassandra is only carbon now2d ago
@scottjenson I'm also white, and I've fucked it up before. Apologizing is important, but so is doing better. This is absolutely a textbook example of failing to do so, of not actually considering what about your actions was harmful.