#[Joel_Auterson]the last few days have really put me off mastodon, tbh
#[tantek]It's very saddening for sure. Don't let a small minority of bad actors determine the vibe for the whole thing though.
#[snarfed][Joel_Auterson] agreed on a possible fear of backlash againts backfeed. the good news is, tons of people have passed around and looked at the original versions of my posts, on my site, with all the comments from the fediverse visible, and I haven't seen a single complaint about those
#[snarfed]I assume people who paid attention mostly assumed I was running the WordPress AP plugin. which is fine
#Loqi[manton] has 15 karma in this channel over the last year (46 in all channels)
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#starrwulfeThere are a whole lot of angry people who don't know much about how things actually work and seem to want to camp on the internet and just be loud. They are just as bad and damn near on parity as the pariahs they think they've run away from.
#starrwulfeIn short -- knee-jerk reactions (and being reactionary in general) does nothing for the advancement of any cause and only serves to entrench people into their camps. Also, Reading Is Fundamental. Gyattdayum read. Seriously, most foolishness like the last 3 days could be avoided if people read more than just the title and first paragraphs of things and get in their feelings.
#starrwulfeIncoming blog post expanding this topic but I want to get as much detail as possible; I'm a minority myself and made of asbestos and I'm also a Big Boy with a big mouth so think its OK for me to call BS on some of these folks out here.
#starrwulfealso if anyone can point me to any good discussions and blog posts I can cite that have taken place elsewhere, please let me know
#[KevinMarks]I posted a fair few to de over the last few days. I also recommend reading with phanpy.social as it maps threads with replies a lot better than the default client
#[tantek]starrwulfe I posted tangentially on the ephemeral web re Masto/fedi drama, and I recommend [manton]'s recent posts. See the #indieweb-stream channel for a bunch more since Wednesday
#[tantek]I'd also cite evanpro's comment on the BF issue that got flames
#starrwulfenoted. I saw that and also Sean Tilly's post too on We Distribute.
#[tantek]aaronpk, I searched for "follow" on your homepage and didn't find it. I had to URL guess at your /follow page. Did I miss an icon or other text label?