It has come to my attention that Mastodon, and/or OSocial, and/or the Fediverse, are no longer what they once were. They're being flooded by Normals. Or People who Don't Speak my Language. または私のアルファベットを使用しない人。
It's becoming like ... birdland.
Or worse: Facebook.
So, here's a thought for you: Facebook was once literally Harvard.
And whatever you think of FB or Harvard, it most certainly isn't any more. Which is a thought you might want to keep in mind. Because change.
@dredmorbius I dunno, framing something around the whole principal of "now normals are using it" is kind of like how asshats in the Debian community can be elitist jerks towards newcomers. It's actually rather narcissistic to say that "The outgroup is polluting the space because they don't share the same xyz values of the ingroup.", as if the old guard was somehow so sacred or things were so much better in the past.
Federation is for everybody. That is its core tenet and mantra.
@deadsuperhero So, basically, yes.
I'm wondering if there needs to be a concept of a welcoming committee, or set of users who are, or are /not/, presented to new users as they're onboarded.
It really only takes one or three asshats to totally fuck up a place's reputation. Seems to me that that's low-hanging fruit by way of avoided problems.
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