Hey folks, an instance with Bolsonaro supporters just arrived in the fedi, brasileiros.social including what seems to be a bot reposting bolsonaro content from
If that wasn't enough, they say in their terms "they hope never to have to moderate because everyone is adult and polite and will hear, listen and respect each other", in other words, smells like freeze peach.
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serious thoughts about mastodon's "discourse culture", meta
one last thing before I log off for a bit to breathe
people don't lose the right to common courtesy just because you don't like them
block evasion is still shitty as hell no matter what the context, end of story
threatening people is not ok, end of story
what you do isn't suddenly justifiable because someone is "the enemy" or "the other" it isn't, it really really isn't, that's an incredibly dangerous way of thinking
stay in your lane
serious thoughts about mastodon's "discourse culture", meta
I know none of you want to hear this, but we, as a community, dogpile people on a terrifyingly regular basis
if you don't think we do, please just think critically about the way in which we engage with a lot of people
we dogpile and we virtue signal and we dramamonger and we get involved when we don't need to and, frankly, shouldn't
and you know what? some people are well-intending when they do this and that's the hardest thing of all
serious thoughts about mastodon's "discourse culture", meta
instead of boosting a primary post I see so much "oh this is my paraphrasing of someone's post that praraphrased this post that..." and then that post gets shared by someone who has a lot of influence and everyone accepts it as gospel
serious thoughts about mastodon's "discourse culture", meta
clarity and understanding aren't luxuries we should revoke from people because we don't like them or agree with them
mastodon is a community and subtooting is poisoning the well something fucking fierce
because when we play telephone with the facts they get distorted, they get hard to follow, it's hard to try and look back and actually understand what was going on
serious thoughts about mastodon's "discourse culture", meta
instead of engaging with a discussion because you want to help resolve the conflict at hand, or because you want to try and inform yourself, or because you want to change things for the better, folks engage with it because "well everyone else is doing it so I may as well" and it fucking sucks
you're turning REAL PEOPLE'S LIVES AND MENTAL HEALTH AND STRUGGLES INTO A SPECTATOR SPORT
YOU HAVE NO STAKE IN THIS
SO STAY THE FUCK AWAY
serious thoughts about mastodon's "discourse culture", meta
mastodon loves to engage with discourse as a spectacle
what starts off as a discussion or a disagreement or an argument QUICKLY spins out into an event
everyone on the sidelines starts to hoot and holler and recklessly share their account of what happened and engage in games of xe-said-ey-said without consulting the original people or even letting them know that that's being done
and why?
because it's FUN to some of y'all
queer kinky anti-capitalist shitposting fartgoblin
mostly here to make bad jokes and boost bad jokes and occasionally enjoy sincerity from good folks
perpetually awful at writing bios
18+, they don't even let me out in public