adventures in self-moderation
So I’ve been deviling with a more substantive post to explain why I’ve been so quiet and sparse on replies. Some of that is personal, and some other part of that is wrapped up in keeping my antenna up while watching the second season of Watergate in uspol (ugh, ugh, ugh).
But there’s this other bucket of stuff best described as having been trained by birdsite, most notably “likes are shares” and “polls are marketing data”. And it’s led to habits I need to reprogram.
adventures in self-moderation
In a nutshell: the concept that everything I say, even in direct communication, may feature in public aggregation, without context, has substantially chilled my speech.
That is something that _does not happen_ in privately maintained Masto instances (in fact, it’s one of the main benefits of the platform). But I constantly need to remind myself of that, and that it’s okay to have frivolous conversations again, without expecting it to train algorithms on my behavior.
adventures in self-moderation
Hi, I’m Goldkin, and I dramatically overthink this kind of thing when it’s okay to just be a person.
adventures in self-moderation
@Goldkin I would posit that it's definitely a kind of person thing to do. ;)