Post #4000051

2026-07-22 00:34 UTC

@benpate@mastodon.social @thisismissem@hachyderm.io Culture change is hard. Sooooo many people got here "first" and think their claim is the only correct one. Has always been thus ... One thing I can think of is remind people that r/fediverse is not exactly the place where "the fediverse" is developed, managed, or happening. Then follow this dev and see what is up! I care much more that the software and the instance are acting like decent neighbours than I do about the infra its hosted on.

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@scottjenson@social.coop 2026-07-22 01:05

@johannab@cosocial.ca @benpate@mastodon.social @thisismissem@hachyderm.io I've been fighting this in my own small way for a while now. Whether it's culture policing or yelling at anyone that dares use the word LLM (even in a neutral way), there are people here that are making it their mission to eject the heathens. My hope is that it really is just a small number and if enough people support posters when they see this behavior, they'll realize they'd just be better off just unfollowing.

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@benpate@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 12:30

Agreed :) I’m a software developer, not a social scientist. And though my bias is to turn everything into a technical problem, I doubt there’s a way to “change culture” AND give people freedom at the same time. I’m on the hunt for tools that make it easy to behave like a functioning adult who’s gone to therapy, and make it hard to behave like a goblin with a megaphone. @johannab@cosocial.ca @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

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