so much bad shit went down here in that 2016-2018 window. i mean i'm glad some of you all have good memories.

it's just weird how romanticized mastodon gets sometimes

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racism, volunteer burnout, actual nazis, just yikes

@confusedcharlot The Fediverse can look super different depending on where you're looking at it from. The instances I was on, and the people I followed, I didn't see any of that.

@confusedcharlot there was a lot of horrible stuff as well, but it would be weird to be like "ah remember how a clique formed and tried to run lots of people out of here"

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