You know, I think people have many different interests and reasons for why they use social media platforms. Some are just hobbyists and use it for those purposes and thus curate and control a feed that emphasises their interests. Is that bad?
No. But it’s bad if they insist and harass other people who don’t use the platform the same way they do, or deny/refuse to acknowledge other types of users and problems exist, just because they have curated it out of their experience.
It’s not any different than a white person claiming the cops never bother them, so clearly this BLM thing is totally made up nonsense and these silly black people should stop complaining about police profiling and brutality towards black people.
People generally, really really struggle, with the concept that other people are different than them. For whatever reason, they seem to view other people’s differences, and difference experiences and concerns, as THREATS to themselves, and respond with hostility, often under the ‘let me help you you ignorant fool’ guise.
I mean, i block those people frequently, but man they exist in abundance here. Far more so than in my most of my reddit experience, but similar to my reddit experience from 2020-2022 when my post about my cat sitting on my porch got me banned for inciting violence, because outdoor cats are all mass murders and I am also one if I let my cat on my porch.
Yeah, if you curate your feed to not see things, you won’t think they are happening.
That’s the problem with all social media platforms. People self-select into their own little worlds, and think anyone outside of that world is ‘boxing at shadows’. Or they convince themselves that they are heroic warriors on a holy war against Microsoft, etc.
Personally, I enjoy the ability to go into other communities and see what is going on there. I prefer to investigate things myself, than rely on hearsay and dwell in ignorance and denial that thinks I don’t know about or experience don’t exist.
Yeah, if you curate your feed to not see things, you won’t think they are happening.
Okay? I mean The Threadiverse isn’t necessarily the only place people on here expose themselves to.
You just complained that people complain about how others use the platform, and now you’re here right now lecturing on others if they choose to curate their feeds and only follow their subscribed communities.
No. I’m complaining about people complaining at me that I don’t curate my feed to be puppies and kittens, and if I don’t, therefore I am a bad person.
Because their beef is acknowledging a larger reality they have self-selected out of, and apparently that upsets them very much that someone else acknowledges it.
It’s your business if you want to stick your head in the sand, proverbially. But you cross a line when you start attacking other people for not doing the same thing as you, or for them acknowledging.
I’ll give you a separate example. On another site I comment on, I told a story about an accident I witnessed where a man killed his dog. This was in context of a social media promotional video with people doing dangerous outdoor activist with dogs because it is ‘bad ass’.
Some people acknowledge my concerns… and about half the comments were personal attacks against me telling me how I was a horrible person for sharing such a horrible story and I should go kill myself because I clearly am an animal abuser if I acknowledge that arrogance and ignorance in the outdoors with your dog can lead to injury and death.
No. I’m complaining about people complaining at me that I don’t curate my feed to be puppies and kittens, and if I don’t, therefore I am a bad person.
Is that something that is happening at scale on here? I’ve never seen people do this. I’ve seen users who point out to people complaining about the /all/ feed to curate their content, but that’s just advise - not complaining.
It’s what’s happened in this thread. My initial comment seemed to upset the puppies and kitties hugbox types of users, who don’t want to acknowledge what is going on here outside of their hugbox, because for them all they want is the hugbox and they think if you acknowledge other people exist that don’t live in their hugbox, you’re upsetting them and disturbing their hugbox.
it’s a common perspective that is not exclusive to any online space, and it’s quite prevalent in real world spaces as well. Three wise monkey approach to life. Personally I’m pro-acknowledging evil exists and happy to talk about it, and don’t see this as it’s promotion, but rather seeking to understand it. Others feel any acknowledgement of evil is an explicit endorsement of it, and you should create a life that avoids any acknowledgement of it in other to avoid it.
Like I’ve been in a public space, reading an article about Ukraine, and had someone come up to me and start harassing me about how dare I read that in their presence because my interest in it upsets them because it’s ‘negative’ and they dont’ want ‘negativity’ in their field of view, or something.
You know, I think people have many different interests and reasons for why they use social media platforms. Some are just hobbyists and use it for those purposes and thus curate and control a feed that emphasises their interests. Is that bad?
No. But it’s bad if they insist and harass other people who don’t use the platform the same way they do, or deny/refuse to acknowledge other types of users and problems exist, just because they have curated it out of their experience.
It’s not any different than a white person claiming the cops never bother them, so clearly this BLM thing is totally made up nonsense and these silly black people should stop complaining about police profiling and brutality towards black people.
People generally, really really struggle, with the concept that other people are different than them. For whatever reason, they seem to view other people’s differences, and difference experiences and concerns, as THREATS to themselves, and respond with hostility, often under the ‘let me help you you ignorant fool’ guise.
I mean, i block those people frequently, but man they exist in abundance here. Far more so than in my most of my reddit experience, but similar to my reddit experience from 2020-2022 when my post about my cat sitting on my porch got me banned for inciting violence, because outdoor cats are all mass murders and I am also one if I let my cat on my porch.
I don’t think this is happening though. I think you’re boxing at shadows.
Yeah, if you curate your feed to not see things, you won’t think they are happening.
That’s the problem with all social media platforms. People self-select into their own little worlds, and think anyone outside of that world is ‘boxing at shadows’. Or they convince themselves that they are heroic warriors on a holy war against Microsoft, etc.
Personally, I enjoy the ability to go into other communities and see what is going on there. I prefer to investigate things myself, than rely on hearsay and dwell in ignorance and denial that thinks I don’t know about or experience don’t exist.
Okay? I mean The Threadiverse isn’t necessarily the only place people on here expose themselves to.
You just complained that people complain about how others use the platform, and now you’re here right now lecturing on others if they choose to curate their feeds and only follow their subscribed communities.
No. I’m complaining about people complaining at me that I don’t curate my feed to be puppies and kittens, and if I don’t, therefore I am a bad person.
Because their beef is acknowledging a larger reality they have self-selected out of, and apparently that upsets them very much that someone else acknowledges it.
It’s your business if you want to stick your head in the sand, proverbially. But you cross a line when you start attacking other people for not doing the same thing as you, or for them acknowledging.
I’ll give you a separate example. On another site I comment on, I told a story about an accident I witnessed where a man killed his dog. This was in context of a social media promotional video with people doing dangerous outdoor activist with dogs because it is ‘bad ass’.
Some people acknowledge my concerns… and about half the comments were personal attacks against me telling me how I was a horrible person for sharing such a horrible story and I should go kill myself because I clearly am an animal abuser if I acknowledge that arrogance and ignorance in the outdoors with your dog can lead to injury and death.
Is that something that is happening at scale on here? I’ve never seen people do this. I’ve seen users who point out to people complaining about the /all/ feed to curate their content, but that’s just advise - not complaining.
It’s what’s happened in this thread. My initial comment seemed to upset the puppies and kitties hugbox types of users, who don’t want to acknowledge what is going on here outside of their hugbox, because for them all they want is the hugbox and they think if you acknowledge other people exist that don’t live in their hugbox, you’re upsetting them and disturbing their hugbox.
it’s a common perspective that is not exclusive to any online space, and it’s quite prevalent in real world spaces as well. Three wise monkey approach to life. Personally I’m pro-acknowledging evil exists and happy to talk about it, and don’t see this as it’s promotion, but rather seeking to understand it. Others feel any acknowledgement of evil is an explicit endorsement of it, and you should create a life that avoids any acknowledgement of it in other to avoid it.
Like I’ve been in a public space, reading an article about Ukraine, and had someone come up to me and start harassing me about how dare I read that in their presence because my interest in it upsets them because it’s ‘negative’ and they dont’ want ‘negativity’ in their field of view, or something.
You literally criticised a user who said they only follow the communities they subscribe to.