The views expressed by Scott in this thread do not reflect the opinions of the Mastodon core team or organisation.

[dwineman@xoxo.zone]

@tiotasram @haubles None of the things you want are possible here, which is a feature

[mrs_malice@mastodon.world]

@troed awww man troed you should really just block/mute instead of pouring hate buddy

@tkissing @lutindiscret @haubles

[patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social]

@troed @lutindiscret @haubles i particularly enjoyed the take about the entirety of fedi being a #monoculture because of low/no engagement with a specific type of post (on which instance? who knows) compared to the bastion of big tent diversity that are threads and bluesky...

[knowprose@mastodon.social]

@haubles I think the broader issue is the metrics journalists are used to versus what they can get here.

I think that gets lost in trying to get people onto Mastodon.

If people are here for metrics related to clicks and views, I don't think they understand Mastodon...

Or the implicit faustian bargain they are unknowingly propagating because they don't have other metrics.

This is not apples and oranges.

This is apples and Mastodons.

[stefanie@social.anoxinon.de]

@haubles I found it most fascinating that he kept talking about a "bigger tent", and didn't even engage the argument that mastodon simply is NOT a single tent, neither big nor small.
It is a campground with many tents of varying sizes, each on with own rules and community.

He also completely disregards the fact that many people came to mastodon specifically to escape the relentless onslaught of AI (content and functions) being forced into literally every other platform.

[stepheneb@ruby.social]

@haubles

Scott seemed to be in a quite emotionally volatile place and often not responding with clarity and understanding to folks with criticisms or different points of view.

And also not responding to abusive shit posters by ignoring and/or blocking.

[stepheneb@ruby.social]

@patrick_h_lauke

Lots of folks tried to point out why this didn’t actually make sense, I know I did, it seemed he got himself into a very reactive place emotionally and wasn’t able to understand other perspectives that were being shared.

@troed @lutindiscret @haubles

[troed@swecyb.com]

@stepheneb tbf he became the receiver of exactly the problem he brought up. Pure hatred, voiced out. I'd even claim @Gargron participated with the "puppy killing".

patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social @lutindiscret @haubles

[tschigi@swiss.social]

@haubles Thank you, I think this is a good decision

[eblu@wetdry.world]

@haubles I think that the level of harassment on mastodon and the fediverse in general needs to be looked at. but yeah this was a disastrous microphone fumble and I'm glad to see this being addressed

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@haubles

What kind of journalist calls himself “carnage4life”?

When I was a kid, journalists had names like “Peter Jennings”, their shows had names like “World News Tonight”, and they didn't whine about their viewers not fawning sufficiently.

Maybe my glasses are rose-tinted, but I miss when most adults did their jobs with competence and professionalism.

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@knowprose @haubles

I used to be involved with pirate radio in my country (and still do some work for a community radio station which has both normal transmitter and online streaming).

Before streaming radio you had 0 idea how many people were listening - whilst it was possible to interact with the station via pagers and later mobile phones, many of the listeners would be young and still at family home or without much money, and until late 90s it cost a lot to call a pager or mobile phone.

But people *still* kept the stations going without "metrics" (although you would often get randoms come up to you at raves and say in person at raves that they listened to the station).- and this was the case for many creative endeavours well into the 2000s...

[stepheneb@ruby.social]

@troed

I don’t think that was the initial problem he “thought” he was bringing up. But it sure seemed to become one for him.

And then seemed to be incapable of not digging a deeper and deeper hole.

That’s the part that makes me think he got lost in an emotional whirlpool which sometimes seems to make people think digging in deeper is going to somehow get them to a light at the end of a tunnel.

@Gargron @lutindiscret @haubles

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@mrs_malice badumm-tss

On the other threads like this make great blocklist sources.

@troed @tkissing @lutindiscret @haubles

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@stefanie Most "bigger tent" arguments translate to "let the Nazis in".

Marginalised communities, in my admittedly limited experience, have more issues with keeping them out.

It's baffling that this take comes from someone even mildly involved with the fediverse of all places.

@haubles

[tekhedd@byteheaven.net]

@haubles Politics? AI (also politics)? Tech topic?

I like Mastodon because people post about stuff they like, not repost stuff they think is trendy.

[troed@swecyb.com]

@stepheneb

He indeed intended for the discussion to be around people who go spew hate at others instead of just blocking/muting what they don't like - it's not the first post along those lines.

The AI-haters on Mastodon just couldn't stand that _that_ was the example given - and so they proved Scott's point beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Scott Jenson (@scottjenson@social.coop)

FOSSism · /ˈfɔːʃɪzəm/ or fawsh-iz-um · noun A militant branch of the open source movement that delights in telling absolutely anyone that 'they are doing it wrong'. One of the fundamental social problems holding the Fediverse back. Nearly always a white dude.

social.coop (social.coop)

@Gargron @lutindiscret @haubles

[knowprose@mastodon.social]

@vfrmedia @haubles Precisely.

And a great lived example!

The entire chain of everything since Web 2.0 has been about impressions to sell to advertisers.

Advertising is the incentive chain that has created the stochastic penal colonies of centralized social media.

There is real readership here on Mastodon. It may not show as favorites, or retoots, but it's real.

Because people here don't have the guardrails shoving chum down their throats.

And I bet donation models might work.

[jessienab@wetdry.world]

@troed do you support the use of AI products and services?

[stefanie@social.anoxinon.de]

@jens @haubles Yeah. Those poor fascists and TERFs and GenAI peddlers must really feel discriminated against because there is a place where their "views" are not universally welcomed with open arms.

Is there hate on here? Sure.
Are you forced to engage with it? Absolutely not.

But what they want is a system like on Facebook, where misgendering trans people is explicitly allowed, but calling a TERF a TERF gets you banned.

Or on Twitter where you can just pay your way into everyones feed.