@fraying I don't think so either, though I'm not sure we're right... just now talked with a friend who pointed out that maybe that kind of interaction just fundamentally serves to empower & enhance the worst qualities of bring human, like, the kind impulses we all have to a varying degree, but which most of us try to manage IRL thanks to the social contract...
@jwcph humans make connections. It’s what we do. Even using shitty tools in shitty situations.
It would be a grave mistake, and incredibly inaccurate, to ignore the real relationships and real communities that we have formed in digital places, even when those digital places are run by craven assholes.
As frustrated as I was with twitter, I continued to see the value of connecting to others in this way as long as one did not cross the line over civil discourse. I had to block literally hundreds of people to maintain that.
Got locked out of my account two days ago. My original email was lost to Verizon years ago. Had updated the email, but two days ago they insisted I use the original email.
Mastodon was the site most like-minded recommended so here I am. So far so good
@fraying Williams and Costolo were slightly better, but they ended up effectively being useful idiots who were dumped whenever they'd served their purpose.
@CrazyMyra Costolo was a wannabe comedian who had no business running a social site and Williams, well, I worked for him at Blogger and try not to speak ill of former bosses so I won’t say anything more.
@fraying having met Jack in person, he is as smart as a can of soup. If he put as much effort into running Twitter as he did looking like a douche, this day would not have come.
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