Notices by Torb 🦋 (torb@octodon.social)

@atomicpoet @aral Agree with this and I’m someone who applaud mastodon.social defaulting (and other apps defaulting to other servers for that matter). Usability matters.

But it really needs to be way easier (and less lossy) to move instances too.

We need both!

1. Easy to join fediverse in the first place (defaults help here)
2. Easy to change instances in fediverse

@aral I hate Twitter in many ways, but this strikes me as a bit tone deaf . The biggest reason I’m still on Twitter is because that’s where a lot of my queer friends are.

These connections are vital for a lot of these people (often used to fascilitate material support, activism and other solidarity).

The alternatives hasn’t worked for them (otherwise they’d left already). And they *know* Twitter is horrible, often being targets of bigotry themselves.

This is why I find it tone deaf. It’s tantamount to victim blaming.

@aral I mean, what does it say about Fediverse and Mastodon that so many queer people still prefer Twitter to it?

Fediverse (like many geeky projects before it) is defacto elitist to the point that queer people prefer twitter over it.

We ought to see that as an valid implicit critique of Fediverse and Mastodon.