@manton Respectfully, I wish you used this message to affirm active support for LGBTQ+ folk rather than shoving Adam aside. It's an incredibly scary world out there for queer and trans folk right now. We need people who are loud and vocal in their allyship when so much of the world it trying to tear us down. Just putting a pride flag to a discover section and brushing aside real concerns that LGBTQ folk and their allies have ain't it.
@manton announcing that you're muting him is incredibly stupid, if you're really done with the conversation just stop posting about it -- i used to recommend microblog to lots of people and used it myself for several months, but now i can't any longer cause of the direction you decided to go
@manton.org announcing that you're muting him is incredibly stupid, if you're really done with the conversation just stop posting about it -- i used to recommend microblog to lots of people and used it myself for several months, but now i can't any longer cause of the direction you decided to go
@manton sadly probably for the best. It all reads to me like there’s nothing you can say except what they want to hear.
You’re being asked to listen without getting that same courtesy.
@dame.bsky.social Very sorry to see you go. I decided to say the muting part publicly as a way to let go of checking his posts. I'm sure he's still saying negative things about me.
@dame.bsky.social Very sorry to see you go. I decided to say the muting part publicly as a way to let go of checking his posts. I'm sure he's still saying negative things about me.
@manton No, you didn’t “have to.” And your responses make me question the assertion of shared values.
@davidcelis Who are the bigots in this scenario? Sorry, I missed Courtney's post if you want to share a link. Working means building a platform that helps people blog, connected with a community, and making it easier to move away from big platforms. I've been doing this work for ages and I think it helps.
@manton @manton I'm sorry you are getting dragged through the mud like this.
This person getting apoplectic across the internet because someone you actually know well has an X account and likes rockets… is the exact "98% of people who don't think exactly like me are nazi collaborators" level of unhinged-ness that keeps me away from Mastodon and Bluesky, despite wanting the decentralized web to win out.
Keep building a product and space you like for the widest set of people, and don't let this nonsense from the loudest/angriest if least-representative people bring you down.
