Masto/social meta WRT that tweet
We also have to bury the social patterns that Twitter et al imposed upon us. The criticism was useful, but it was not written to encourage Mastodon's improvement. It was a flaunting of social capital, intentional provocative, a behaiour we have deeply ingrained and likely are all responsible for doing at some point due to the gamification of social media (florps and retweets)
We have to rewrite this ettiquette or we will see the same problems within the fediverse
Masto/social meta WRT that tweet
There is an informal RFC from the IETF on nettiquette from 1995 that I read recently. The values it espoused were ones I recall seeing dissolve through my time on Twitter because Twitter intentionally designed itself to tear down social moores and make its userbase feel like individual heroes who feel it necessary to run mini-crusades against things we don't like. We can do better than this, and Fedi has a unique opportunity to fix the harm that's been done.
Masto/social meta WRT that tweet
The social capital accruement from pointless complaining/"calling out" software or networks for being "bad" is one that fundamentally, I believe, fuels the fire that results in call-out culture of real people, because they are both done for the same purpose. It is an ugly consequence of the abandonment of social responsibility and praise of negativity that Twitter et al have sponsored.
