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.
“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 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.
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.