looking at the latest hn thread about mastodon and seeing at least a half-dozen people who are essentially saying: "i went on mastodon and the people on there were behaving in a kind and respectful way, and it was too stressful to make myself behave in a kind and respectful way too, so i left"

weirds me out so much when i read stuff like this. like gives me a massive huge "unknowability of the other" feeling

@jk

A lot of Mastodon comes across as saccharine white people shit, like Tumblr but with fewer maladjusted teens posing as political activists.

It's like visiting those "old-timey" craft stores or looking at a P. Buckley Moss painting. It's very "grandma" in a way that makes people uncomfortable to express themselves.

And that's before we get to the issue of all the furries on here.