Yeah, but you can't make them move, can you. People are like birds flocking, they want their communities, and until people start to move organically they won't go. You can talk to them all you like about how it's better and how it's not scary, but nobody's going to go anywhere that doesn't have the content they want.
vashti
joined 2 years ago
You're interpreting a much older shorthand with online emoticon rules. XO is a closed-eye open-mouth emoticon, but XOXO has been "hugs and kisses" for long enough to have been used when people wrote letters by hand.
Absolutely nobody I know is on Mastodon, and despite my efforts, they won't move because it's "scary" or "bad" or some bizarre shit.
Yes, I'm frustrated.
Sure. Enjoy your moral purity as we head into the next Tory administration, and the next, and the next. Nothing to do with you, of course.
I'll remember that when the second Sunak government forces me back into work-related activity. I'm sure it will be very comforting as I'm driven to a nervous breakdown.
That's not the system we have and it's not how anything works. You have to vote for whoever can beat the Tories in your constituency, you don't have a choice.
If you don't do that, you're just a useful idiot for the Tories. Acting like we have PR when we don't and praying this is the moment of the Green breakthrough, honest, is madness. The UK is moving further and further to the right and short of a revolution we're stuck with it, so please just vote to get the current shower out.
Probably my closest call is going on holiday one week and not the next. A nail bomb went off at the bus stop I was at, exactly one week after I was waiting there.
I mean, this is how everything worked already. People start subreddits and have to get traction, make their way to /r/all, etc. Having ~one single space~ wasn't magic, and things work exactly the same.
If you see a community that interests you, subscribe to it and be the change.
I have simple needs, so I'm going to say I'm really excited for news on the upcoming game Persona 5: Tactica.
I expect to be disappointed, but for now the dream is real.
Because it keeps breaking down; because people are getting randomly banned for no reason; because the chance it has a future is essentially nil, because there's essentially no abuse controls any more so if someone spams you out of the blue multiple times with CSAM discussion and then calls you a necrophile when you block them (as happened to me this week) you have no recourse; because you can only send ten DMs a day or some stupid number now; because "X" is silly and ugly and you're cross about the cute bird...
and because Elon is a narcissistic fuckboy, natch.