Notices by moby dickgirl (epistemophagy@mastodon.lol)

I'm so proud of #Twitter for finally being as feature-complete as Mastodon 🥹

We are now looking at the worst possible case scenario — #Musk clears marginalised people off #Twitter but the platform remains viable, advertisers and journalists continue to use it, and marginalised people are shut out of discourse on a worldwide scale — and part of that is a lack of will on the part of the old guard to reduce the friction involved in #Mastodon onboarding

The idea that Mastodon onboarding *should* be hard, that it's *right* for it to be hard, is literally just elitism

You've been told about ways the onboarding processes can be made easier but you want to remain hip, cool, despite the fact that an actively antisocial social network is by definition strangling itself to death

You've been told about safe and ethical ways to implement #QuoteToots and yet you continue to insist that QTs are inherently unethical and unsafe and I'm beginning to think it's because you just don't want to be criticised

@davidgerard I actually read Eugen's specific reasoning for why QTs are bad and I don't remember specifically what it said because my memory is dogshit but I do remember that it impressed me even less than if the summaries I'd heard about it had been unconditionally true