Notices by e(Ag)le (silvereagle@furry.engineer)

@ConnyDuck I eagerly await Tusky correcting the record on here in a way that isn't just replying to me and telling me I'm "full of shit" or "fucking lying" because it would be awfully handy for us outsiders looking at this situation and piecing it together from what we can see if you gave us more information than just that.

Overnight, as a result of this thread, Tusky's community manager was forced to resign after having leveled some very justified (and honestly, very benign) criticism of TheBadSpace.

I get flak for saying it, but there really is an ideological "cult" surrounding this project and the folks immediately running and supporting it. Any criticism of it, valid as it may be, is seen as bigotry, and since anything labeled "bigoted" is (often rightfully, but in this case, far too zealously) exterminate-on-sight in the Mastodon universe, it's far too easy to just designate the next target arbitrarily.

Folks are uninstalling apps, defederating from each other, ripping thousands of connections apart, calling each other heinous horrible things, all because we have differing opinions about how best to keep the Fediverse a safe and inclusive place.

I really think this is all getting out of hand.

The responses in the original thread spell out an ultimatum that some people refuse to work with anyone who criticizes TheBadSpace in any way:

I can hardly imagine someone from our team not supporting Ro

I have been helping Ro and that’s how people feel about it then I don’t wanna work with them

All for what? These "receipts" are SO benign: they say "innocent users are going to get caught in the drama" (they are, and have), and they boost someone saying blocklists are in general a case of good intentions poorly executed (they are).

None of this is, in any fucking way, racism or bigotry. This is a wholly uncontroversial take.

And yet, the outrage inside Tusky not only forced the community manager out, but made them issue this apology:

I am extremely sorry to anyone hurt by my thoughtless actions.

What thoughtless actions?! You were 100% right, and got yeeted for it.

That's fucked, right?

I posted about switching to Firefox as my "daily driver" browser as a little tiny step away from Chromium browser hegemony, and I had a ton of people in the replies suggesting I should just use Brave or Edge or Opera or Vivaldi instead.

I'm a little concerned that people don't realize just how pervasive this problem is. Every single one of those sits on top of the Chromium codebase.

A new study shows a whopping 87% of games released prior to 2010 are no longer available for sale or download by any means other than the second-hand market and archival/"piracy": http://gamehistory.org/87percent/

Proof if you ever needed it that the community is doing the work that corporate interests won't do to preserve gaming history and the slice of culture it represents.

We are living in an age when it is so astonishingly cheap to keep copies of things around and yet the perverse incentives exist for companies to memory-hole anything that doesn't perform well or that might compete with newer offerings.

IMO, in the big picture this is what legislation is for, correcting a horrible tendency that the market will have if left to its own devices, and there should absolutely be legislation protecting archivists of content that's no longer available for sale, or even requiring that content creation companies keep content available in SOME form. Until then, we depend on each other to do this.