What @gruber@mastodon.social clearly doesn’t understand about the Fediverse is that *I don’t have to interact with people or services that make me miserable*. Which I couldn’t do when I was using Facebook. I was at the mercy of their algorithm, hoping that I wouldn’t encounter something *they dumped into my feed* which would make me deeply unhappy. And yet he believes that *choosing* not to connect with #Barcelona makes you a “misfit island loser”. @gruber@mastodon.social believes that freedom of association is for losers. (📎1)