I think that's a very astute read. In defense of the comment section: Every person who replies to a tweet is acting as an individual. For the person who sent the tweet, they often experience the response as a mob. One person being over-the-top is one thing, but 100 people being over-the-top at the same time genuinely feels like the pitch…
In defense of the comment section: Every person who replies to a tweet is acting as an individual. For the person who sent the tweet, they often experience the response as a mob. One person being over-the-top is one thing, but 100 people being over-the-top at the same time genuinely feels like the pitchfork'd masses showing up to burn down your house. It's a really strange position to be in. And it makes you loopy, even if every one of those 100 people went about their day and never thought about it again.
Thanks. I went back to it and looked at time-stamps. A bunch of them did pile in in the first 40 minutes after he posted, perhaps unaware of the others. (Also, I noted a quiet little post, 'I am trans and agree with your analysis, thank you' that was of course worth more than 10 of the rest...)
But, there were about 20 more that were (a) late enough that the point had been made, David berated, and (b) were quite unpleasant, often with a meme picture of something ugly.
I just hope that Mastodon's more federal nature keeps these kinds of actions smaller.
I think that's a very astute read.
In defense of the comment section: Every person who replies to a tweet is acting as an individual. For the person who sent the tweet, they often experience the response as a mob. One person being over-the-top is one thing, but 100 people being over-the-top at the same time genuinely feels like the pitchfork'd masses showing up to burn down your house. It's a really strange position to be in. And it makes you loopy, even if every one of those 100 people went about their day and never thought about it again.
Thanks. I went back to it and looked at time-stamps. A bunch of them did pile in in the first 40 minutes after he posted, perhaps unaware of the others. (Also, I noted a quiet little post, 'I am trans and agree with your analysis, thank you' that was of course worth more than 10 of the rest...)
But, there were about 20 more that were (a) late enough that the point had been made, David berated, and (b) were quite unpleasant, often with a meme picture of something ugly.
I just hope that Mastodon's more federal nature keeps these kinds of actions smaller.