Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users
by starkparker on Sunday March 19, 2023 @09:14PM
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> I think if they had merely expressed frustration
This is the fundamental fallacy of modern social media, that expressing frustration is action. Nathan wasn't going to change, and shouldn't have to.
The advancement of decentralization presents an actual action disapproving users can take: leave for another instance, even by creating their own. Fragmentation of communities is a feature, not a bug.
The people who want to boycott Harry Potter are as toxic as it gets.
They attacked Pikamee. If you don't know who Pikamee is, that's like stamping on puppies.
Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users
by actualwitch on Monday March 20, 2023 @06:25AM
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You have to remember that there are some people who just want to leverage the free pass to bully people. In this very topic a user was suggesting to masquerade as trans to be able to troll scot free, so you have to take it with a pinch of salt.
Neither mattered in that case. It was just a conundrum. Something a lot of people wanted to boycott had a AAA game built for it.
I assume you're coming on the side of Nathan, but can't you see why people were going to have a strong reaction about posts about the game surfacing in the feed? It was a wedge issue. I'm not on either side, except I am against those who actually threw those insults at Nathan, which I'm pretty sure were a tiny % of the people who disagreed with him. I think if they had merely expressed frustration about the situation but not gone off the handle the same thing could have happened, albeit more slowly.