Re:Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon
by nextlevelwizard on Friday March 22, 2019 @01:36PM
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>you are putting your name behind your words, so you can't ghost when you are asked to provide evidence to support your position, nor can you engage in "lol it's just a joke, stop being so serious" chicanery.
Except many times none of these hold true.
Re:Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon
by rchaud on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:49PM
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It may not hold true for scripted, time-bound, many-to-one events like talks, but for person-to-person interaction, people see nuance and context more easily, and it's harder to walk out of a conversation because we'd be losing significant credibility in doing so.
That might be fine on Twitter, where no one's going to bother looking through your post history, but again IRL, people aren't randomly looking around for other people to get into arguments with in the first place.
Re:Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon
by bklaasen on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:26PM
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> "lol it's just a joke, stop being so serious"
A tactic used by many a racist and misogynist in real life, unfortunately. They manage to make folks attempting to improve the culture seem boring and humourless.
The best advice I ever got is simply to respond to racist or other inappropriate commentary with "We don't do that here." I've used it to good effect to help shape a more pleasant working environment.
Online is different from IRL. IRL, you have an obligation to engage in dialogue rather than pile-on on someone else's pre-existing drama. You cannot simply regurgitate someone else's quotes, . IRL, you are putting your name behind your words, so you can't ghost when you are asked to provide evidence to support your position, nor can you engage in "lol it's just a joke, stop being so serious" chicanery.
Most importantly, there aren't any likes or retweets IRL that incentivize comments with a "mic drop" attitude. You are in conversation with that person only, you aren't performing for the Internet at large.