Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users
by kitsunesoba on Monday March 20, 2023 @09:58AM
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Also known as (if I’m not mistaken) “reply guys”: those who attempt to hijack threads by replying to posts and steering the conversation towards something only tangentially related to the post/poster, almost always in an adversarial manner, rather than starting their own threads for the topics they’re wanting to discuss.
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Re:Mastodon Hit 10M Users
by ocdtrekkie on Monday March 20, 2023 @10:02AM
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Yeah I'm generally not too up of whatever the latest term is, but you'll see accounts that literally registered and immediately started making no posts except telling people their political views are wrong. Or their existence is wrong.
Like, if you're only there to argue, nobody is going to want to hang out with you, sorry. Plenty of good debates happen, including people with differing political views, but you have to bring something besides hate to the table.
Of course, then those people claim they were "censored" for "being conservative" or whatever, but more than likely they were just banned because their only point in registering was to attack other people.
I think "reply guys" are men who tend to always reply to tweets from women, inoffensively but repeatedly,[1] and the thing you're describing is "sealioning"[2].
[1] https://mashable.com/article/twitter-reply-guys
[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sealioning-int...