@kibi @amphetamine @dzuk That sounds so good. That's the kind of shit I'd want to see on Mastodon. Tech people are already here and I don't necessarily want to take their place away from them, but Mastodon needs a better way to market itself so that Other People will show up, I think. I would just like to have the option of finding people who don't have a fav Linux distro, I guess.

@witchfynder_finder @amphetamine @dzuk i mean, i have the privilege of being able to talk tech but i'm a humanities major who only got into it because i care about self-publishing so,

same,

@kibi @witchfynder_finder @dzuk i've been in love with all the people making games and music and knitting since day one

i'm also supremely tired of computers as a near-fetish requirement; i'm here to be a ratty queer anarchist and make good things and have fun

@amphetamine @kibi @witchfynder_finder yeah, I'm too tired to really have much to say and I think these things summed it up. I'm glad I have Mastodon because I've gained so much and so much confidence. I wouldn't have even considered being on Twitter if I wasn't on Mastodon beforehand.

But yeah, it's very much sigh and Twitter is just reminding me of things I'd like more of on Masto but I very much think those possibilities are frozen out for the meantime.

@amphetamine @kibi @witchfynder_finder Mastodon basically has a thing for attracting the kinds of people who would repel the kinds of people I'd like to see more of.

I wouldn't have necessarily thought about it until cassolotl's Medium post just brought a lot of subconscious things I was thinking about and things I have experienced many times on Mastodon more to the foreground.

@amphetamine @kibi @witchfynder_finder And then with the ActivityPub security problems that fucking creepy instance exposed, I'm wondering if Mastodon/this kind of thing is really fixable, ForkOffTogether or not.

Even if there's a fork and even if the ActivityPub issues are somehow worked out, and blocklisting gets really good, you still have an entrenched tech community and a lot of techbros.

@dzuk @kibi @witchfynder_finder i believe in us, i guess

i have always believed that we can do this

@dzuk @kibi @witchfynder_finder i do wanna say that a lot of people who have been quiet have actually been working really hard in silence sometimes

kibi has been very much an example of this, and i too am very close (a week or two) to being in a position where i can say more and do more

i dunno what that means for the structure of the network, but i feel like i have had enough tools for keeping the typical shit out of my feed too

@dzuk @kibi @witchfynder_finder everyone i've known here is someone i've come to think of very personally, and even after a year of pain that should make me "sadder and wiser" i actually still feel that way

@dzuk @amphetamine @witchfynder_finder i was going to write a loving roast of Mastodon a while back but didn't have time, but maybe the ground is still fertile for that discussion after all

i like Masto because i think it has the potential to offer communities to people who have never had one before, and those are really the people i care about

but there's definitely still work to be done there imo

@amphetamine @kibi @witchfynder_finder @dzuk Huzzah for ratty queer anarchists making good things and having fun!

(Heck, I'm a scientist, which I thought would make me pretty much a Tech Person, but web development language is a fog to me, startup culture sounds various shades of monstrous, and I don't play video games, so.)