You love to see it

Wow, super interesting article. I love how they simply describe it as hazing the wildlife. Pretty sure I’ve never heard that term outside of a human-human context, but it’s a funny way to describe what they’re trying to do.

This anecdote was also funny

Lackey once responded to a call from Tahoe, where the lead singer of the 1980s hair band Whitesnake had a house. A bear had broken into the house, swam in the indoor pool and was ambling down the hall toward the recording studio. By the time Lackey made it up there the bear was gone, so he set a trap. A couple days later, a bear was caught.

When Lackey arrived at the property and looked in the trap, he noticed it was a different bear than the prior one. As Lackey was dealing with the trapped bear, the bear he intended to trap walked past, ignoring Lackey and his bear dogs, and headed for the house. Lackey released the dogs, and they immediately chased the bear up a tree.

I guess this kind of thing happens when you build a 10,000 foot estate in a remote area that was formerly wilderness until fairly recently. Good for the bears, ransack that house for all it’s worth. Late 80s music has to be among the worst eras in popular music history. That shit has not aged well, and I resent the fact that this dude became a multimillionaire from that bland garbage.

He did something wrong. But the vitriolic, puerile response to this whole episode, coming from all directions, confirms his overarching argument beyond any doubt.

The fediverse is a place that harbors a disproportionate number of misanthropes and people who have struggled in their personal lives for a variety of reasons. And I have always hoped that could become a strength of ours, but I have come to realize that an internet forum is not a venue that is conducive to healing broken people. Instead, it seems to amplify their toxicity in the vast majority of cases. Based on the behavior I have observed, which has continued to worsen over the years, this platform will perhaps never succeed in its objectives. It seems that it would require an act of god at this point.

The brief period after the APIcalypse seems like a distant dream now. There are still many fine people here who are doing their best, but the majority of emotionally stable, casual users have steadily, silently abandoned this sinking ship over the years. And it shows. Taking glee in another person’s pain and downfall is not the behavior of a mature, emotionally well adjusted adult. We clearly have precious few of those remaining on this platform. Perhaps that is also the case for our society in general, to be fair.

I’m not the type to quit, but I just can’t find much enjoyment in coming here anymore. Thanks to the open ended format of the network, there will always be hope. But it’s incredibly exhausting to watch users chase away and harass anyone and everyone who plays any sort of productive role in the development and/or administration of the platform. Not only are they doing it for free, but they also have to deal with a peanut gallery of cackling hyenas, just waiting for any opportunity to desecrate their corpse. What a sad state of affairs.

Agreed. Can’t win em all buddy, you’ll get em next time

I don’t necessarily disagree with you. As much as I enjoy the song whenever I do pull it up, I can’t honestly claim it’s on my car playlist or party playlist. It’s pretty hard to beat popular music at the end of the day.

Film music, video game music, and even classical music are all great and impressive in their own right, but when you’re chilling/vibing/socializing, popular music is the way to go. And by popular music I don’t mean pop music, I mean the whole spectrum of contemporary music that people mainly listen to, I guess you could also call it vernacular music. So I pretty much agree with your point but I think you got downvoted because you stated it in a fairly blunt fashion.

Counterpoint.