and that's not to say you can't agree with whatever it is! just be aware of what, exactly, it is that you're agreeing with. almost everything is more complicated than it seems at first glance.

@typhlosion yeah I’ve seen some reasonable looking opinion toots that o agree with.

Then found there’s a whole *pile* of discourse behind the simple toot I might *not* agree with.

@Doggo yeeeeeah

as with everything i rant about, it goes double true for callout post shit too - "[person you don't know] is a HORRIBLE MONSTER" is a dangerous game and it's easy to miss a lot of context if you're not involved in whatever happened

@typhlosion
Would read: The Federalist Papers, as toots.

@earfolds i didn't mean character limits per se, i meant them as a stand-in for the general trend of microblogging and the habits many of us preserved (consciously or not) from environments like twitter

@earfolds which i suppose is a long winded way of saying: yeah that's fine i guess, but the problem isn't with any specific instances so much as netizens in general

@earfolds (not necessarily including you or anyone else specific)

@earfolds i think you're missing the point

@earfolds you're fixating on specific parts of my thing - character limits, microblogging - when what i'm actually trying to talk about is the sensation that those things contribute to people on the internet apparently not knowing how to healthily approach complex issues (favoring instead laconic quotable stances that are often very extreme and harmfully general).

it isn't JUST a twitter or mastodon problem. im tryin to make an observation about the zeitgeist

@earfolds probably i didn't go about it the right way

@earfolds yes. i am aware. (i have, in fact, been around mastodon for a while and have seen a lot of these new developments as they've happened)

but we can't just force everyone onto those platforms, you have to fend for yourself to some extent; hence the other handful of posts in the thread. new tech ultimately can't solve social problems. that's up to people.