Mox Fulder
For anyone reading this and thinking 'wow, Byron's doing some good honorable work here that sounds really difficult', what he means when he says 'dealing with other admins' is going into the Mastodon Discord and suggesting changes to Mastodon that would harm community instances, like removing the local feed, and then getting told by other admins that that's a bad idea.
There's plenty of rational discourse, it's just not in favor of his idea, which must be a pretty new thing for a white guy.🧵
Mox Fulder
There's no 'lack of rationality'. What he means is, he's brought up these ideas before, and opinion hasn't changed. He can't understand why local feeds are valuable to instances that run as communities, so any opposition to it is considred 'irrational' and 'tribalism' to him. He's a white guy in tech, he's not used to having his opinions challenged, especially when they're being challenged in favor of building safe spaces* for communities that normally face oppression and discrimination. 🧵
ArneBab
@moxfulder the phrase “lack of rationality” was kind of a red flag: similar arguments are far too often used to push a point. “if you’re not with me, you must be irrational, because I know the objective truth”.
benny
@moxfulder @supernovae now I'm curious: How would removing local feeds be a feature one would want?
Or to put it in another way: If you are an admin and want local feeds gone, why in hell don't you just do it? Imean it's FLOSS. Change the code, deploy it, boom, everyone's got their way. No need to further argue.
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