because i read with my own two eyes an op-ed saying that the first couple waves of mastodon users were people who "couldn't handle opposing viewpoints" let me break it down for those who haven't figured it out yet:
it's not that we can't handle opposing viewpoints, it's that all of y'all keep treating being an asshole like some sort of ironic coolguy thing to do and we all find you insufferable and none of us can stand being around you
@typhlosion the op-ed was by a prominent gnusocial member who was around before mastodon was a thing
@takaeri so... i was right
@typhlosion nah they've had an account on mastodon since the beginning too. they've been around.
@takaeri oh i see so they're just wrong then
great
@typhlosion @kellerfuchs when mastodon rolled in and caught on with queer/leftist Twitter the main gnusocial instances were either the laissez faire instances like qvitter/highland arrow or the explicitly antagonistic ones like sealion or SPC
and a lot of the early adopters were isolationist by necessity because mastodon was lacking so many privacy features but back then so many gnusocial members were dunking on mastodon ppl near daily
@kellerfuchs @typhlosion so it was either the normal issue with 4chan kids being much louder and relentless than anyone else OR the occasional dickish vaguepost from people entrenched in other instances (cough cough the people who run highland arrow cough cough)
@SkooterOfWanderlust damn dude!! what a cool, original position to take!
@takaeri see a lot of folks operating under the notion that "freedom of speech" means "I want to be able to make a racist joke on here".
@IstariGetUp either that or "i want to debate strangers using my bad ideological positions and claim moral superiority when they tell me to fuck off"
@takaeri "So much for the tolerant left"
"I don't recall boasting that I was tolerant of assholes"
@takaeri or it's like, some people don't consider their very right to exist to be something that can be debated. Dealing with Nazis (etc) is not about "handling opposing viewpoints".
@takaeri that op-ed sounds like it comes from someone who has not actually been on here