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mastodon gives email inbox vibes

aka boring and tiresome and occasionally stressful unless I see a message from a friend

Sometimes you stumble onto a good thing by accident and it helps you realize how much you hate another thing. Well, with my whole chest, I hate mastodon.

There’s the fact that marginalized people are frequently censored in some perversion of moderation. Then the fact that if you don’t follow the “culture” you’re ostracized. Then there’s the horrible ergonomics of conversation, coupled with horrible content discovery (stfu about tags).

Then there’s just…I can’t be myself in this space. I can’t say anything that is not specifically intended for the white male gaze. There’s no hot girl shit on here because it would make all the dudes too horny or too uncomfortable. And you know what; that’s incel haven vibes.

You gotta ask yourself - who are the people who don’t want quote toots? Who is that protecting? It’s white dudes who don’t want to be called out for gross opinions.

I’m not sad or mad, I’m glad I have had this place to find my friends after Twitter burned down. But i would never call this a content platform. It’s a glorified email service.

“Dudes posting their Ws” at scale.

Want to also thank @mekkaokereke for the phrase “HOA racism.” That’s completely what it is.

@shantini @mekkaokereke don't have HOAs in Oz - had to look it up :-P

Learn something new everyday

Paul Cantrell

@bgrinter Congrats / sorry? As an Aussie hearing about HOAs for the first time, you might get the impression that they’re kind of awful — but as someone who lives in the US, I want to assure you that they’re much, much worse than you’d think.