12-29-2018
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Over the past few days, I've seen an uptick in the amount of times I see something in any of the venues I follow people on that
make me go, "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
First it was an "otherkin cringe" Tumblr (which I follow to remind me never to sink to those murky depths ever again) posting a
screenshot of someone on Mastodon (it was clearly the Mastodon UI) showing off their queer pride and feminism pins and talking
about how they'd like to jump the poster and, I quote, "rip off their pins one-by-one and throw them into the sewer".
Second, it's the constant "kill all cishets/whyte people" posts on the fediverse, but a lot more... graphic in their imagined v
iolence. I thought calls to violence were supposed to be banned on a lot of the instances that these posts originate from, and
yet...
And now someone in my feed is spamming Nazi swastikas (as opposed to Hindu ones) and calling people f*ggots for expressing thei
r free speech in muting instances known to host bad actors.
At least my instance admin (@tA@ilovela.in) is planning on wiping both their Mastodon and Pleroma servers and starting new on a
brand-spanking-new Pleroma instance. A brand new year, a brand new beginning.
But for now, things suck.