@amphetamine @witchfynder_finder @dzuk there was definitely this feeling of like… comics are an old scene with a lot of bias both within and outside of it, but all the indie comix people i followed had a very "we're all in this together and let's have a good time despite all that" mindset and would rep each other's stuff and support the cool things they were all doing and just bring so much positivity and light to the platform tbh

@kibi @amphetamine @dzuk That sounds so good. That's the kind of shit I'd want to see on Mastodon. Tech people are already here and I don't necessarily want to take their place away from them, but Mastodon needs a better way to market itself so that Other People will show up, I think. I would just like to have the option of finding people who don't have a fav Linux distro, I guess.

@witchfynder_finder @amphetamine @dzuk i mean, i have the privilege of being able to talk tech but i'm a humanities major who only got into it because i care about self-publishing so,

same,

@kibi @witchfynder_finder @dzuk i've been in love with all the people making games and music and knitting since day one

i'm also supremely tired of computers as a near-fetish requirement; i'm here to be a ratty queer anarchist and make good things and have fun

@amphetamine @kibi @witchfynder_finder yeah, I'm too tired to really have much to say and I think these things summed it up. I'm glad I have Mastodon because I've gained so much and so much confidence. I wouldn't have even considered being on Twitter if I wasn't on Mastodon beforehand.

But yeah, it's very much sigh and Twitter is just reminding me of things I'd like more of on Masto but I very much think those possibilities are frozen out for the meantime.

@amphetamine @kibi @witchfynder_finder Mastodon basically has a thing for attracting the kinds of people who would repel the kinds of people I'd like to see more of.

I wouldn't have necessarily thought about it until cassolotl's Medium post just brought a lot of subconscious things I was thinking about and things I have experienced many times on Mastodon more to the foreground.

@amphetamine @kibi @witchfynder_finder And then with the ActivityPub security problems that fucking creepy instance exposed, I'm wondering if Mastodon/this kind of thing is really fixable, ForkOffTogether or not.

Even if there's a fork and even if the ActivityPub issues are somehow worked out, and blocklisting gets really good, you still have an entrenched tech community and a lot of techbros.

@dzuk @kibi @witchfynder_finder i believe in us, i guess

i have always believed that we can do this

@dzuk @kibi @witchfynder_finder i do wanna say that a lot of people who have been quiet have actually been working really hard in silence sometimes

kibi has been very much an example of this, and i too am very close (a week or two) to being in a position where i can say more and do more

i dunno what that means for the structure of the network, but i feel like i have had enough tools for keeping the typical shit out of my feed too

@dzuk @kibi @witchfynder_finder everyone i've known here is someone i've come to think of very personally, and even after a year of pain that should make me "sadder and wiser" i actually still feel that way

@dzuk @amphetamine @witchfynder_finder i was going to write a loving roast of Mastodon a while back but didn't have time, but maybe the ground is still fertile for that discussion after all

i like Masto because i think it has the potential to offer communities to people who have never had one before, and those are really the people i care about

but there's definitely still work to be done there imo

@amphetamine @kibi @witchfynder_finder @dzuk Huzzah for ratty queer anarchists making good things and having fun!

(Heck, I'm a scientist, which I thought would make me pretty much a Tech Person, but web development language is a fog to me, startup culture sounds various shades of monstrous, and I don't play video games, so.)