josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@boyter I realised this was all public (including DMs) in 2017, but still don't like seeing the protocol being abused just because it is possible to do so. In that, I agree with what @ceoln said in that thread.

Think of the Fediverse like any other human society. In society there are rules, but that doesn't mean people can't break them. The question is, if rules can be broken, why do most people abide by them? Because we all implicitly know that following the rules (most of them, at least) makes sense. There's no incentive for us to break them, but following them helps us live more carefreely.

That's why my follows are still open to this day. Not because I don't care about my posts being published somewhere else (I do and I don't like it), but because the possibility of that happening was negligible.

I think you're deflecting the issue. We all knew this was all public. We didn't need you to open our eyes to that fact. We need you to take the next step and come up with an idea that makes us safer instead.

@ava A trans person telling other people that they're not valid because (absurd, made up) reasons? I never thought I'd live to see that!

@elektrikfisch @boyter

@MattMerk You missed TeX as an alternative to InDesign.

@coolboymew Funny how when it's a good thing, it's the Internet who did it; and when it's a bad thing, it was gamers.

@euklidiadas Un millón de millones es un billón, aunque supongo que lo has escrito así por la confusión habitual entre el billón de verdad y lo que dicen los estadounidenses para que todo parezca más grande de lo que es.

@boyter Since the Twitter people arrived, popular threads have become huge. I guess the software was never really tested with that in mind.

Why is it faster while browsing anonymously as opposed to browsing from your account? Probably due to the filters, mutes, blocks, etc., that are being applied. I suppose that's the bottleneck.

@esheep It's definitely not your fault.

@Wormwood Turks still deny the genocide they commited against Armenians during WW1; and some Japanese deny WW2 crimes (search for Chinese comfort women, for just one instance of those) and still regard some objectionable figures as heroes.

If you don't like Billy Wilder's _Irma la Douce_, I hereby declare you my mortal enemy. Nah, just kidding. You're just an idiot with no taste in movies, but we can still be friends if you don't mind me always desregarding your opinion on everything.

If you think I post crap, you should see the stuff I delete before I hit the ‘TOOT!’ button.

I wonder whether people who boost/fav the above post do so because they find it funny or because they identify with it. Maybe both?

(The above post was based on _facts_, but some of them were changed for entertaining purposes. Those include me being always right and being asked anything at all by anybody, among others.)

People usually ask me: “Don't you ever get tired of being right all the time?” And the answer is: no, not really. At some point you just get used to it. Now I feel nothing.

@augieray We'll see who's right if/when we get a Fediverse-wide implementation of quote-posts. Without them, I have already seen some pretty toxic behaviour here, so I'm confident in what I said.

@kentpitman

@augieray Why do you assume that people have no free will? You can avoid looking at the trends (I did), you can avoid responding to trolls or, at the very least, not with something that escalates the situation. You can create a network of like-minded people who all get along and ignore the rest of Twitter (I did). You can look at bad takes as an attempt at humour that went wrong instead of as a personal insult (I did).

Whatever the case, the algorithm only works if you collaborate with it by amplifying certain voices and ignoring others. Without humans willing to be outraged, the algorithm is nothing. The toxicity is not in the algorithm, nor in the tools, but in the humans.

@kentpitman

I despise how people shift blame to entiities external to themselves, like those who say: “Twitter is toxic.” No, Twitter was never toxic, its users are. And now those people come here and ask for tools that will amplify their own toxicity, so we can have a taste of it. And when we'll denounce it, they will say: “No, it's the Fediverse that it's toxic. It's full of nazis and transphobes. (And I have to point it all out.)”

But, no, the Fediverse is not toxic, either. _You are_.

@kentpitman
> The thing about Twitter, and why I really stay, has nothing to do with a lust for trolls or trolling. It is that Twitter is connected to many news sources and allows direct access to people who affect the world.

You realise they affect the world because you give them that power, not because they actually have it, right? If they had no one to listen to them, they would affect nothing.

Last time I checked, no one on the Fediverse had started a war or screwed up the economy, or lied to the public about issues fundamental to them.

@augieray