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.
“This depends upon the communities you follow. And you have the choice to NOT follow them. I only read the communities that I subscribe to (instead of sorting by ‘all’), and it is very rare that I encounter the garbage that you’re describing.”
I wouldn’t identify this as criticising you, but addressing your own grievances with how you interact with the site.
I don’t have any grievances with how I interact with the site.
My grievances are with users on this site who can’t acknowledge other people’s uses of it are not the same as their own and who feel they have to attack and bully other people into agreement with them.
Sort of like people who misinterpret my comments and read their own meanings onto my comments, and lecture me about how they know more about what I said that I did and then start arguing with me how wrong and stupid I am.
It’s almost as if it’s not about my comment at all… but more about their insatiable need to browbeat other people into agreement with themselves because they think disagreement or someone having a different expereince with them is some sort of threat to themselves.
Almost as if they have fragile egos and can’t stand for someone else to say things or discuss things that challenge that fragile egoistic experience, because they would have to acknowledge the world exists apart from their tiny little hugbox of thoughts they wish to surround themselves with.
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.
Yeah, because they criticized me for not doing that.
Don’t throw a punch if you can’t take one back.
“This depends upon the communities you follow. And you have the choice to NOT follow them. I only read the communities that I subscribe to (instead of sorting by ‘all’), and it is very rare that I encounter the garbage that you’re describing.”
I wouldn’t identify this as criticising you, but addressing your own grievances with how you interact with the site.
I don’t have any grievances with how I interact with the site.
My grievances are with users on this site who can’t acknowledge other people’s uses of it are not the same as their own and who feel they have to attack and bully other people into agreement with them.
Sort of like people who misinterpret my comments and read their own meanings onto my comments, and lecture me about how they know more about what I said that I did and then start arguing with me how wrong and stupid I am.
It’s almost as if it’s not about my comment at all… but more about their insatiable need to browbeat other people into agreement with themselves because they think disagreement or someone having a different expereince with them is some sort of threat to themselves.
Almost as if they have fragile egos and can’t stand for someone else to say things or discuss things that challenge that fragile egoistic experience, because they would have to acknowledge the world exists apart from their tiny little hugbox of thoughts they wish to surround themselves with.