Dear Mastodon commenters:

When someone describes a systemic problem with a technology in society, you dickheads have an awful habit of Kramering into the mentions proposing to solve the problem with some lump of open source with an interface bad enough it's a list of reasons to become a terrorist.

Apart from how nobody fucking asked, you are also being too obnoxiously self-centred to realise that INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS DON'T SOLVE SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS that are not a matter of people not being enlightened to the existence of a particular lump of FOSS that isn't going to work for that user in that situation anyway.

Your reasons for thinking this is in any way appropriate behaviour trace directly back to the libertarian origins of open source and the Californian ideology as outlined as far back as the 1990s. Many of you are absolutely not libertarians and you *still pull this shit*, and that's where you got it from.

This is a perennial fucking pattern. I realise that posts like this reach everyone except the fuckheads who really need to read them, but to sum it up:

NOBODY ASKED FOR YOUR SOFTWARE REC FOR THIS SYSTEMIC PROBLEM.

TRY SHUTTING THE FUCK UP AND NOT ACTING LIKE A FATUOUS BOZO.

Feel free to link back here when someone does this to one of your posts.

This is an experiment. Please boost.

http://mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

Update:

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#Purism has decided not to honor my request to be removed from their #purismforums and has instead stated:

We will not delete the anonymized accounts or posts

To #purismforum users, I do not consent to any of what has happened, and I recommend abandoning that site.

To users who stay there, never link to my projects or my socials and never mention me, my socials, or my projects ever again.

For those wondering:

I find myself in this situation because transphobic posts harassing me were allowed to remain on that site while Purism moderators removed, hid, or censored some of my responses. My posts were calm, civil, and respectful, while many of the posts directed at me were none of those things. Purism's moderators decided that it is acceptable for users to repeatedly post transphobic insults directed at a trans user, while it is strictly unacceptable for any user to say the word "fuck" in any context, including in a hidden thread that exists for discussions centered around the "politics" of pronouns.

Goodbye and good riddance

#FuckPurism