@gamingonlinux Yeah treating it as a purists only thing suffocates it. Fedi is a fully usable thing, not just a tech demo. It'll be better for FOSS stuff in the long run if people feel like they can use it without the expectation to use it exclusively.

@gamingonlinux You mean shaming people is an ineffective strategy?! Who knew!

Most rational people.

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People forget that a big point of FOSS is giving people more choice, including ones they may not like

@gamingonlinux other platforms exist??

@gamingonlinux lol there dont know the local feed feature ? ^^

@gamingonlinux Gatekeepers can go to hell. One such individual actually had a pinned post about how he would never tell anyone how or what to post, and then he had some very specific things to say about my activity here.

"I know for sure the boost and like button both work on mastodon.social because I had an account there 4 years ago."

What a sanctimonious jerk.

@gamingonlinux how DARE you! the sheer audacity! XD

ppl need to relaaaax.

Still some people telling me posting links to Instagram is “not a good look”, you absolutely will be muted. I have no time for gatekeeping bullshit. If you don’t like it scroll and don’t click it. Honestly getting so very tired of the attitudes on Mastodon. It feels like fighting FOSS fanatics and Linux Native (anti-Proton) fanatics all over again.

@gamingonlinux 100% this. Plus, if we didn't operate on non-free platforms nobody would ever discover FOSS in the first place

@gamingonlinux We do not need to gate-keep presence on the internet for fucks sake! There is enough of that as is!

I love it here, for sure, and there is a large sense of community, but... tearing others down for *existing* online ain't it, chief.

Being fedi exclusive? That's neato and cool. Being other places? Totally cool, too. Let's just... not be shitty to others over something so trivial.

@gamingonlinux To be fair, I am a #Fediverse advocate myself, but this kind of shitty behavior also makes me upset. Most people use #mainstream #socialmedia because a lot of people are still on there, it's not like everyone is on the Fediverse or something.

I, too, would block anyone who decides they can dictate what services I use just because they hate them

@gamingonlinux Well, scrolling to the next post without saying anything about such a choice is exactly what I do.

Don’t want to go to #Instagram, even less to #TikTok, but if other want too it **their** problem, **NOT MINE!**

@gamingonlinux You don't get it. Twitter is a horrible place, they don't even allow mastodon links! We are totally not like them, that's why we don't allow Twitter links! Or Instagram links. Or Facebook links. Anything other than FOSS is banned actually. Because we are super different!

@gamingonlinux There is room for everyone.

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If you want people to use FOSS, you have to welcome people who are trying it

@gamingonlinux I don't care if you want to use mainstream consumer hostile platforms. I am on Mastodon because I don't like those platforms as are many other people. Constant complaints and block gloating is annoying. You don't have to announce every time someone urks you. Talk about spamming your notifications while spamming new feeds with useless posts focused on getting affirmation from others for your choice to block everyone that bugs. You can just block and move on.

@gamingonlinux What if that other place is a hate site

Like Twitter or Stormfront

Am I not supposed to lecture or harass you about that

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What cracks me up is when people complain about someone cluttering up their feed with stuff they don't want to see, and it's like..."are you not just cluttering up my notifications right now when you could just mute me?"