I miss the social media where I frequently encountered people who hadn't made a Linux distribution into a core part of their personality.
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Jenniferpluspluswrote last edited by [email protected]
I miss the social media where I frequently encountered people who hadn't made a Linux distribution into a core part of their personality.
[Do not immediately do the thing I don't like as a "joke"]
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@jenniferplusplus Back when I was a teacher, in Intro to Operating Systems I'd sometimes go...
"Who in here is a Windows guy?" (a forest of hands shoots up)
"Who's a Linux fan?" (decidedly fewer hands, but attached to people with smugger looks on their faces)
"And who ... thinks that attaching a significant part of their self-identity to a computer program is probably a bit silly?" (slightly sheepish laughter) -
Michael Halligan ๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
@jenniferplusplus Fully agreed! I personally would also add to that people who make what they donโt use as a core part of their personality.
For example, open source maximalists can be absolutely vicious to people who happen to like iPhone or Mac.
Like I donโt need a snide comment every time I mention my phone or my laptop. All it does is make me dismiss that person.
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Jenniferplusplusreplied to Michael Halligan ๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ last edited by
@mhalligan my immediate problem is that they do both things about mastodon itself. They make it out like signing up on a mastodon server is some kind of moral and intellectual virtue. Then they viciously denigrate anyone who hasn't done that (can't imagine why people wouldn't want to be on here). And they're entirely too comfortable about it.
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Michael Halligan ๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
@jenniferplusplus yeah, I find that obnoxious as hell!
Iโve experienced the same phenomenon in a lot of social scenes. (Ex: As a punk, I was supposed to hate people who liked dance, country or pop).
I feel like as soon as somebody starts identifying with a scene they embrace the negative scenester behaviors and biases.
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Michael Halligan ๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธreplied to Jenniferplusplus last edited by
@jenniferplusplus The Fediverse maximalists can be really annoying. I donโt actually see why they want everybody in the world to be on Mastodon. Iโm old enough to remember when AOL connected to the Internet and ruined everything.
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@jenniferplusplus Considering that #Mastodon is the #Linux of #SocialMedia, you may be in the wrong place for thatโฆ
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@lkngrrr so this is, what? An attempt to tell me you're the kind of person that makes this place unpleasant for everyone else? How do you imagine I'm supposed to respond to that?
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@jenniferplusplus More that Mastodon is structurally more likely to attract the kinds of people who substitute their choice of Linux distro for having a personality.
I try not to be unpleasant hereโ my only exception is when I publish my terrible music on my timeline.
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@lkngrrr @jenniferplusplus I think there's some truth to what @lkngrrr said. There's a reason behind your observation--and this is likely to be the reason. Maybe she was mansplaining? Both Mastodon and Linux are built (largely) by the people for the people. Free, open-source, not built to harvest your data. There's something about liking that kind of thing that gets into one's persona in a way that corporate greed doesn't.
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@rspfau @lkngrrr
I know what the fucking reason is. I'm saying it's a bad thing.It's a bad thing to equate technical comfort with moral and intellectual superiority. It's a bad thing to exclude people who don't.
This place is built to cater to every random passerby who wants to "well actually" someone, and this thread is a perfect example.