The pony fandom is at its brilliant best when it's wildly creative, inclusive, loving - not when it's being represented by a bunch of tedious racists who apparently missed every message the show ever conveyed.
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Being part of the MLP fandom has changed - and saved - my life. I love it. I've made lifelong friends through it.
But stuff like BABScon having a table at MareFair, while MareFair has things like the attached image on their schedule, undermines BABScon's inclusive history - and sends the message the fandom finds this okay.
(And no, "it's just the name of a kids' book! There's no other meaning!" doesn't excuse it. The /mlp/ gang have been throwing around that word to apply to zebras - who are, in the show, African-coded - for years.)
It's not okay. It's not what the fandom should be about. And when we say "eh, it's just /mlp/ being /mlp/" that enables it.
The fact that the pony fandom is still not fully separated from 4chan /mlp/ is not great.
Yes, the fandom has its earliest roots there, but that doesn't mean we need to love and tolerate people who think that adding a "Z" to the n-word is hilarious. "It's just a joke" doesn't cut it.
I'm a pegasister for life, but for fuck's sake, that's not okay.
I will never understand these "as long as the output is the same, what does it matter??" takes. Bizarre and anti-human nihilistic crap.
Human interactions are about empathy and communication. Ability to make fluent words doesn't, on its own, demonstrate empathy or communication, and humans can tell the difference. #AI
If you go to Mare Fair, and *especially* if you vend at it or perform at it, you're part of the reason the MLP fandom has the reputation it does.
Arcane SciencesMe and some other cool people worked on an open letter about #AI, #permacomputing, and #degrowth - feel free to sign on Gopher or Gemini if you agree with it!
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so it looks like the Musk has decided to spin his decisive loss as "the poll was rigged! it was bots!" and will be ignoring the result.
also, the official TwitterSafety poll about whether to proceed with the "no third-party social media links" policy has been deleted; last time i looked at it, it was ~90% against.
this is not gonna improve, folks.
Folks, Twitter is not your friend, and it is not going to get better. Musk isn't going away. He isn't going to start being a friend to content creators. "Sure, it's becoming Leopards Eating Faces Social, but the leopards won't eat *my* face" isn't gonna work. Masto isn't perfect, but it's the only credible platform that can have its future determined by the people in it, not by some far-off billionaire.