Damn it, #Mastodon subculture has a crap reputation and it’s honestly mostly deserved.
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@cferdinandi That’s fair but if we take them at their word and their architectural goals that’s not an issue hopefully. You rightly pointed out about Mastodon. Lots of people don’t include Mastodon. Mastodon is 65% of fedi software that’s used. Mastodon nonprofit has 30% of the fediverse users. I’ve heard people state that .social is too large to block. People notoriously don’t like change. As to why there’s still people on Twitter. There’s nothing stopping someone with an offer by buy Mastodon nonprofit two instances. That would be the same as someone buying up bsky.social
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@damon there's a lot more it supports than a simple account redirect. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
you're right, everyday people don't care about sites being VC funded until it personally affects them, and typically that's around when the money dries up and the enshittification starts. or it gets bought by someone like Elon Musk or David Karp.
the benefit to the culture is that the fediverse isn't something a rich douchebag can buy. but it's a double-edged sword in that now it's the responsibility of the people running the instances to foster good culture. it's disappointing that there aren't more BIPOC supportive instances, but that can change when more people participate in the community and wall off the parts that want to be bigoted. I don't trust capital to do this until they there's a financial incentive to do so. Bluesky being better here only lasts until another Elon Musk shows up. it's always the end goal of these large tech companies to find someone to hold the bag when it's time for the website to make money.
anyway I can see this isn't going to go anywhere productive. in spite of everything I said, you still seem to think Black & Brown people being welcome on fedi isn't important to me and the people whose opinions I value. you wondered at the Bluesky hate, I delivered as a white LBGTQ+ person that has endured people in my community being insufferable and bigoted in their support of Bluesky.
I'm happy for you that Bluesky can be a place where BIPOC people can enjoy more support, but as a trans person watching tumblr go to shit after being bought out by a transphobic CEO, I promise you that won't last.
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@damon @geos the thing of it is, what is needing a cw varies from person to person. the fediverse exists as a place where you can curate your own experience. there needs to be a cultural shift of people taking responsibility for the content they're exposed to.
people need to realize they don't have to follow anyone who reblogs content they can't handle, and that it's more constructive to mute people instead of demanding they change how they post. there's way too many people that want to be content cops (it's one of those bad habits of other large social media platforms really), and that sure seems to include policing BIPOC people talking about their experiences.
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@gothodile I have my experience as an early adopter of Bluesky. There’s plenty of LBGTQ+ happy on Bluesky that won’t even attempt to use Mastodon. There’s trolls and people with harmful thinking of every site my experience has been that the community on Bluesky doesn’t make it worse they pile on those people. What do you mean you’ve endured people being insufferable and bigoted in their support of Bluesky?