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Hug your #FediAdmin today.

There’s a lot of shit flying in the #Fediverse lately and a lot of times perspective seems to get lost. Yes, there are things we need to talk about, and yes there are things we will not agree on. And that’s okay.

But leave the pitchforks and torches out of this.

Fedi admins put in the hours and effort and emotion into making fedi happen. Sometimes they make decisions we might not agree with. We should criticize, but we should not pile-on.

—@rysiek

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Vyr Cossont 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@vyr@universeodon.com) (Universeodon Social Media)
hi i'm a smug piece of shit here to explain to you that blocking #Meta is useless and impossible and wrong actually. let me tell you how #ActivityPub is a sieve and #Facebook is very large. you know i know what i'm talking about because i currently work for #Google and/or used to work for #Twitter and proudly have that in my bio. that's probably where i internalized the futility of trying anything ever. if i'm queer, female, and/or a racial minority, i'm insulated from most problems because of my wealth. if i'm not, i have no idea what those problems are other than something about bathrooms? i have several expensive hobbies and have never donated to a mutual aid fundraiser in my life because someone might scam me. i have no idea what collective action is, but i'm sure it can't work because, as i have mentioned, Facebook is very large. i have an all or nothing idea of success and cannot fathom the concept of making something slightly less shitty. anyway, fuck you, you dumb peasants
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In reply to @andrearennick.

@andrearennick @chris This is the thing that's annoying me about the current debate, specifically the pro-Meta side. I get that on a per-instance level, some are going to federate while others not. But the pro-federation side seems to be completely ignoring that the communities pre-emptively blocking have absolutely valid concerns. Also that whole "Maybe we can convince people to leave Meta's federated thing and join real? federated things" take is +

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Gruber says: “…the idea that administrators of Mastodon/Fediverse instances should pledge to preemptively block Facebook’s imminent Twitter-like ActivityPub service (purportedly named Threads) strikes me as petty and deliberately insular. … to me this feels like convicting Facebook of a pre-crime.”

To me, this take feels obtuse to the point of intention – or at least self-parody. Smells a bit like the whole “paradox of tolerance” folks like to shop around in debates.

Surely you can’t possibly be unaware that Meta (née Facebook) already has a rich history of acting badly, that many folks switched to alternatives like Mastodon as a response to that, and many now express wariness & outright revulsion to that same bad actor wandering into a new party?

My dear sweet summer child, don’t be a doofus.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open

—@lmorchard

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Nowhere Girl (@gwynnion@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
You can tell TERFs / GCs are hateful bigots because there are no circumstances under which a trans person can exist that they will accept. They may pretend to in order to appear reasonable in front of others, but the goal posts always shift so the trans person is inevitably in the wrong. There is no such thing as a "gold star" trans person who does everything right such that they have to accept them because they just want us dead, period.