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Starlight
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Professional dilettante, radical soul sailor, psychonaut, and all around badass
Eric Girouard
Caffe NekoDear Twitter ex-pats. When we all flounced out of Twitter loudly proclaiming we were going to Mastodon this sent a message to trolls, nazis that they could set up servers & come here.
If anyone gets harrassed with hatespeech pls note that that is not the culture of Mastodon. Please report & block those users. If you notice a pattern from the same weird domain, block that domain, write a post of the server name w/ a hashtag fediblock so your server admin can follow up & block it for everyone.
AnilI’m still struggling to unlearn the habits I’ve built up over 20+ years of being on social media. There’s that weird mix of performativity and anticipatory defensiveness that both serve to color and mute my voice and diminish my thoughts here. I’d like to revisit that. What are the things I’ve forgotten how to say on the internet?
𝘀𝘁𝘂𝘅☀️
Dave EwartWith the rush of former users of that other site, long-time users of Mastodon might be feeling rather overwhelmed right now. And this may only be the start: they can see a few boats on the shore with us disreputable folks barging about, and there’s still plenty of smoke on the horizon. Be excellent to one another.
A good post about this is https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/
t̵̹̖͙̘̲̲̤̀͆͜h̴̢̧̫͕̭̜̠̝̤̗̏e̶̛̯̦̦̖̲̖͑̍̅͌̋̕͜͠͝ͅ ̵̛̲̍͊̐͊̚̕̚͝a̷̡̛̗̺͉̤͖͉̲̔l̶̬͈͎͒͛̆͐̐͠g̷̪͈̜̅͒͌̍̑̕ǫ̷͎̫̩̘̖̼͎͆͂r̴̮͛̆̋͒̏̂̉ị̶̳͖́̆̈̈́͗̎͘̕t̷͓̄́̽̿͒͘͘͝͝h̴̪̮̹̜̑͌͘m̶̲̭̟̪̾̅̑̿̔̍̉͘͝ has made beasts of us. It’s a relief to be free of it here.
joanne mcneilSocial media followings have always been a cheat code. And eventually cheat codes stop working.
A lot of us platform refugees are learning that we’ve been accepting of/or committing social media micro-aggressions elsewhere that don’t fly here on Mastodon.
Aral BalkanI’m beginning to see quite a few “this is a positive space, there is no place for negativity here” style posts (especially by newer folks) so I want to hopefully clear something up:
This is also a space to be protected. From fascists, bigots, etc., and also from corporate capture (unless you want to watch it turn into what the greater web turned into. Some of us lived through that once. Would be nice not to again.) Opposing such things—and vocally if need be—is not a negative; it is a positive.