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  • Every time I see a joke about this, I think about how people spamming it pushed Will Wheaton off of the Fediverse.

    • :(

      I didn't know he attempted the fediverse

      • Editing: straight from the horse's mouth: https://wilwheaton.net/2018/08/the-world-is-a-terrible-place-right-now-and-thats-largely-because-it-is-what-we-make-it/

        • Whoa, he was on Mastadon in 2018! A very early adopter.

          Now I'm sad

          • Mastodon has a rep, and a select few seem to have quite the investment into keeping it that way. They ran off every friend I've tried to point there. It's simply not worth their time to put up with the bullshit. I can't blame them. I don't use it myself (never got into Twitter or microblogging), but I dipped my toes in with kbin since it was a feature. The only person I followed was Alec from Technology Connections, but that didn't last long because people crawled up his ass and set up shop until he left.

            I'm not sure if it's sweaty basement types trying to keep their corner of the internet "pure" or bad actors trying to poison the space to keep it from blossoming. But it's obnoxious.

            • I'm struck by how similar our experience to mastodon was, right down to Technology connections being the only person I followed.

    • Who says he isn't on the fediverse?

      Chances are he's probably here, just not under his own name or identity.

      • He quit social media entirely. It was a whole thing. I linked his blog post below.

        • I know lots of people that claim they aren't on social media. Unless we can monitor their daily activities, it's really hard to know if a particular person has an online identity or not. Unless you are meta, google or the NSA, it's difficult to know what anyone does online.

          Personally I always liked Wheaton because I basically grew up watching him. And it was neat that we are of similar age. The first time I saw him was in the film 'Stand By Me', which was an amazing movie to see as a kid growing up in a messed up world. Then to see him appear in TNG soon after which was a TV series I really enjoyed as well, I was always a fan of his.

          If he's anything like the people in our generation ... I have a strong feeling he's wandering around here and having his own fun.

    • I tried to look it up and that's reportedly not it. According to https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/9bimug/why_did_mastodon_run_off_wil_wheaton/ he pissed off both the Alt-Right (Gamergate) crowd as well as the Left (specifically trans) and in general got many people mad at him irl. I'm no expert, just thought that I'd share the link in case anyone else wants it too.

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