@aral People who feel like they're being told they're bad people with bad intentions are going to be less inclined to do what other people want.
It doesn't matter if you're right; if the people who you're trying to convince think you're a jerk, the people who you're trying to convince won't want to help. I've had to learn that lesson a lot of times.
You can't control other people, you can only control yourself, and how you treat others.
@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews Many people on fedi who are the exact kinds of people the harris campaign is desperately trying to reach, young queer people, run non-masto software, precisely because their needs failed to be met by the "one-size-fits-all" approach to how mastodon works.
By rejecting this reality and only referring to "mastodon", you're confirming to these people that this campaign is, just like the rest of the world, not going to respect their individual needs and circumstances.
