Okay here's a real toot that you can actually boost without people looking at you like you're crazy.
https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616
The past few weeks (okay, ever since the schism) I've felt kind of disenchanted by Mastodon and especially its development environment, and I wrote an essay about why that is. It's long, but if you're interested in Mastodon's history or politics you should give it a read.
@u2764 Thinking hard about this essay, having been quietly here for a while with a group of strong supporters of the ethic you describe, but not necessarily your core community. I suppose you could say we came as critical educators looking for similar values. We came by accident, following a friend, found ourselves here, and we've been working since to think through what it means to be marginal but hoping to be useful.
We are still here.
@u2764
Thanks for writing this. It has further confirmed and clarified my feelings about the of this space. It has also for me increased the need to research and learn from what has developed here and helped clarify what maybe that research might look like. Thinking maybe such a project is a way in which I can be useful?
@katebowles @lauraritchie