xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@PurpCat @Milo @S-Config @wowaname @RK7
>In particular; it's because rage and drama and arguing breed interactions; especially with the right demographic for this.

I used to be into that stuff back in my late high school and college years, but I can barely stand to even look at that stuff anymore. I actually regret being into that stuff because I wasted a lot of time when I could've used that time to study for school or practice programming. Pretty much every celebrity who took part of any side of GamerGate or the culture war turned out to be a huge grifter and/or lolcow anyway.

@PurpCat @Milo @S-Config @wowaname The JewWario and ProJared (even though he didn't actually fuck his fans) situations taught me that very well.

@PurpCat @Milo @S-Config @wowaname It will always anger me that the indie game scene is the epicenter of this behavior. A lot (if not most) people just want to see the imaginary worlds that they've been dreaming since childhood come to reality and probably never envisioned getting into such drama.

Though I'm not familiar with this game so I have no side to pick on this one.

@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config Oh okay, but you also need people to realize that a bad poster will sometimes make a good post.

@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config It's not "imageboard mentality". I doubt most Poast users ever touched an imageboard. They were probably watching alt-right/dissident right Youtubers/podcasters before Poast came around, given that they still talk about them like it's 2017. At least 8chan had a disdain for such e-celebs.

And I think "egoistical pitfalls" will always happen unless you have complete anonymity. If you cause enough drama, someone will start archiving and cataloging everything you have posted and put them up on a pastebin, wiki, forum thread, etc.

@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config It's not. It's a rich-text pastebin and a replacement for wikis.

@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config I'm pretty sure that some would be hostile to gaijin posters.

@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config
>4chan i still regularly see plenty of people mature enough to ignore all that and save the threads with useful contributions anyway. hopefully that makes more sense. it isn't so much the moderation, it's the community's temperament. fedi has always eaten one another alive; we're schismatic and that's a shame

The difference here is that we have likes, reblogs, follows, blocks, etc and it's much easier to post a short meme and get a bunch of those than it is to make an effort post. On imageboards, all you have are (You)s and everyone is completely anonymous so nobody is building any positive or negative reputation (unless you make it obvious that all your posts are coming from the same person).

Microblogging is basically the polar opposite of imageboards. Everyone has accounts, followers, blocks, etc and therefore has a reputation. This enables personality cults and constantly picking sides. It also doesn't help that many people who came here after 2021 were on sites where such behavior was encouraged (like KiwiFarms). Part of the reason why I hate most Poast users is that they are the types that were spending most of their Internet time watching MisterMetokur videos back in the 2010s, so they've surrounded themselves with people who like to make lolcows out of those they disagree with or who they think are weaker than them.

@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config I lurked on various Mastodon and GNU Social instances before the brief federation of Gab and the culture was kind of like what you described. A lot of people were just simply posting their nature walks or whatever projects they were working on. There were still a few people like that on here when I first joined, but I think Poast scared them off.

@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config I'm afraid that you can't have that kind of culture on a decentralized network in this political climate (which I don't think is going to change anytime soon). The only way you can have it is on a centralized network with moderation to keep all the political posters, blackpillers, etc out.

For example, there are a couple of imageboards and textboards out there that strive to be more comfy instead of complaining about how much they hate the world, but those admins realized that they either need to sacrifice freeze-peach and/or be relatively obscure in order to keep it that way.

The fediverse has neither of that going for it. Yes, there are more laid-back instances on here that try to replicate that pre-2014 experience, but it is inevitable that users get dogpiled by Poast and NCD users who think they own the network. You could also just have an isolated, webring-like network of whitelist instances, but that kind of defeats the purpose of decentralization in the first place. You might as well just have a Ning site.