he joined a tabletop focused instance that didn’t hold dear the types of treating eachother better ethos most of us here on the fediverse hold dear, so his first impressions of the fediverse was getting bullied by a bunch of nazis. it’s kind of not a surprise he hasn’t been able to recover from that experience, even if it’s not really a typical one
He joined very early. The mainstay of the communities was conservatives ostracised from social media. It wasn’t until the progressives started fleeing Twitter and Reddit that the support-each-other communities would blossom. I went back when I got here and found his treatment and why he left. It was just a bunch of juvenile fuckwads saying, " Shut up, Westley," to everything he wrote. He gave it a solid run, tried to take some of it in jest; in the end, he just wasn’t welcome at the time.
no no, you were entirely accurate. I just came back for context. I had hoped that he maybe just took something the wrong way; he can be quite sensitive at times, so I hunted down the transgressions and found they were awful to him.
And he was on Slashdot before that.
He was on mastodon too, but I think he left.
he joined a tabletop focused instance that didn’t hold dear the types of treating eachother better ethos most of us here on the fediverse hold dear, so his first impressions of the fediverse was getting bullied by a bunch of nazis. it’s kind of not a surprise he hasn’t been able to recover from that experience, even if it’s not really a typical one
He joined very early. The mainstay of the communities was conservatives ostracised from social media. It wasn’t until the progressives started fleeing Twitter and Reddit that the support-each-other communities would blossom. I went back when I got here and found his treatment and why he left. It was just a bunch of juvenile fuckwads saying, " Shut up, Westley," to everything he wrote. He gave it a solid run, tried to take some of it in jest; in the end, he just wasn’t welcome at the time.
thank you for the additional, and better remembered, context
no no, you were entirely accurate. I just came back for context. I had hoped that he maybe just took something the wrong way; he can be quite sensitive at times, so I hunted down the transgressions and found they were awful to him.
And Fark!
So that’s who Cowboy Neal is!