It's a pet peeve but:

Nothing online pisses me off quite as much as when someone pulls a Schroedinger's Douchebag. Saying something shitty in a place where tone is *inherently* stripped, and then backtracking with "it was just a joke ooOoObViOuSlY" is just shitty teenage edgelord bullshit.

Aside from it's inherent shittiness, when that behavior is normalized, it gives cover to white supremacists and transphobes to test the waters in every place they enter, to see if *this* place will tolerate and support their bigotry.

I just fucking hate it. Makes the internet worse for everyone.

I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like

"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."

New Signal update just dropped

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