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Written by Wren Reilly on 2025-01-20 at 10:19

A lot of the demonisation of "mainstream" social media is just misogyny.

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Written by Wren Reilly on 2025-01-20 at 10:24

The role of a technologist is not to lecture people about having fun. If the way people are having fun turns out to be harmful, that is something that humanities people should be addressing. You know, humanities, that discipline that technologists have been ignoring?

This isn't just about corporate technologies. When open source alternatives are frustrating to use and inaccessible, no amount of lecturing people about the evils of closed source code will get them to use your tech.

Make it usable, make it fun, listen to your end users.

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Written by Goerp on 2025-01-20 at 15:16

@akareilly

That's an unexpected opinion to me. Perhaps I don't understand what you mean?

It felt to me that a lot of that demonisation had to do with the hatred and bullying on those platforms.

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Written by Wren Reilly on 2025-01-20 at 15:53

@goerp Open source and federated doesn’t mean no hate.

Women and gender minorities get a lot of hate and harassment here. The reply guys on Mastodon have been worse in my experience.

FLOSS communities have been resisting codes of conduct despite horrific abuse at conferences and in code reviews.

STEM supremacy runs deep.

Now pay attention to how FLOSSbros talk about social media. Do they call the users frivolous, silly, lazy, superficial? There’s a reason for that.

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Written by Goerp on 2025-01-20 at 16:26

@akareilly

I totally agree with your first statement!

I haven't had the experiences you describe, but ofc. that's personal.

I did notice that my personal experience here was less pleasant than on Twitter, but it is improving and I can add to it by trying to be nicer and less impulsive. (And managing my own timeline)

I'd like to hope that everyone could have a safe and pleasant environment, but that's probably not going to happen.

The freedom for one is the restriction for another.

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