how hard do you have to fuck up posting to turn into a main character on *mastodon*.

[froztbyte@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard the "there is no centrally visible point! how could it possibly be successful!" guys are having a real counterproof moment in time

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@davidgerard which of them? Because one of them demanding Mastodon make room for AI bros and explicit fascists is <checks notes> the official Mastodon non-profit's "senior product advisor."

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard you're a racist unless you welcome AI boosters, so we don't have to listen to you, you racist.

[errant@mastodon.sdf.org]

@davidgerard inb4 the ineviatable article "People on masto were mean to me when I tried to force my views on them so thats why masto is cooked/doomed/bad/the fascists actually"

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@errant @davidgerard "people disagreed with my tech takes on social media which is literally what the Nazis did to the Jews"

[feralrobots@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard was thinking earlier about the peculiar contempt a lot of BlueSky users have for fedi, & I think you've stumbled on one of its roots:

It's much easier to be a main character, there.

Even as every person who wants to be seen as sane will tell you 'being the main character is BAD', in their heart they still want it, & sense that it's harder on Fedi.

[feralrobots@mastodon.social]

@rootwyrm
Someone outside this thread commented just now about how ironic it was that such a person so fundamentally misunderstands the nature of the fediverse.
@davidgerard

[reflex@retrogaming.social]

@rootwyrm @davidgerard Eugen is doing a heel turn now?

[piebob@metasocial.com]

@davidgerard i do wonder how beandad would have played out over here...

[feralrobots@mastodon.social]

@spacehobo @davidgerard
yeah that's a solid point. I do sometimes have conversations, there, but for various reasons it's much more likely to go that way here.

[koen_hufkens@mastodon.social]

@spacehobo @FeralRobots @davidgerard Hear, hear.

[wronglang@bayes.club]

@spacehobo @FeralRobots @davidgerard gonna have to start calling the rest "para social media"

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@reflex @davidgerard nope, Eugen started the other main character by telling him basically "I'm not the manager, dipshit."

[reflex@retrogaming.social]

@rootwyrm @davidgerard Yeah, my bad for not reading further down the 800+ posts of my timeline first lol. I purposefully stay away from here on weekends so monday is a bit confusing. My bad!

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@reflex @davidgerard all good! The instigating incident:
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116357625749597464

[rycochet@furs.social]

@davidgerard 'Mastodon is doomed because I can't get people to pay attention to me and AI boosters!' *Monkeypaw finger curls*

[peluchecero@xarxa.cloud]

@Rycochet @davidgerard

[reflex@retrogaming.social]

@rootwyrm @davidgerard A bit of a tangent, but the idea that "mastodon is hostile to AI" as though that's some odd thing when polls show the public is overwhelmingly hostile to AI leads these bros to question Mastodon/fedi and what needs to happen to change that sentiment, vs them asking the real question: Why do other social networks not demonstrate the hostility to AI that masto/fedi do given that the latter seems to align with public sentiment?

Ie: the complaint is the lack of manipulation.

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@reflex @davidgerard to put an even finer point on it still, because it's very easy to:

Replace 'AI' with 'fascism' and they would be saying the same things. Replace it with 'Nazis' and no surprise, they are saying *exactly* that too. (But don't you dare call them Nazis!)

They love BSky because it platforms and defends bigots, terrorists, and Nazis and is at war with it's own users over it.

[mccovican@infosec.exchange]

@davidgerard One of the main characters of Mastodon became the Main Character of Mastodon. Feels like someone wasn't specific enough with their genie wish.