It's not like I didn't know full well that it was gonna happen, but boy howdy is saying any nice thing about Large Internet Company on Mastodon quite the exercise.
I'm just another noodle on the internet - what do I know?
But perhaps if any mention of a mainstream anything invites You're Doing it Wrong and you Should Feel Bad About Your Opinions as responses by default... maybe this place isn't so fun.
@TechConnectify The joy of having a sizeable online following is that at some point the number of followers who are--to put it bluntly--irredeemable dicks crosses a threshold where they end up costing enough mental overhead to make actual online interactions with people measurably less fun.
@Legit_Spaghetti Yeah, ya know there was a day when Twitter stopped being fun because suddenly I was a target to be punched up at. It was a frighteningly sudden shift.
Here, though, that's always been there from some subset. Mostly it comes up when my toots get boosted.
There's a brigade of folks who seemingly would rather see popular YouTube creators stay the eff away rather than, y'know, maybe try and normalize decentralized non-corporate social networking.
There's a brigade of folks who seemingly would rather see popular YouTube creators stay the eff away
That mindset is something I hope I'll never truly understand. Maybe it's people who prefer to be big fish in a small pond and fear the "platform" becoming too popular.
Maybe it's people who are desperate to be tastemakers and feel threatened by others who are succeeding in reaching their audience.
Maybe it's Maybelline, who even knows!
@Legit_Spaghetti @TechConnectify it certainly feels like it, honestly
@TechConnectify @Legit_Spaghetti If it was up to me all the people I like on YouTube would move here and to Nebula.
I know... I know....
@TechConnectify @Legit_Spaghetti yeah when a fediverse post goes wide enough jackasses come out of the woodwork. It's not really a function of too many followers cause it happens to me at 7.5k. I saw someone saying they were muting a thread because it was "in the long tail of bad replies" and that's definitely a thing. It's probably because most people here are more opinionated? So if a post goes wide enough, there are the bad opinions
@eniko @TechConnectify @Legit_Spaghetti I would simply not have bad opinions :-)
@TomF @eniko @TechConnectify @Legit_Spaghetti the problem is others still do 8-P