Or perhaps just read a book -> based
WHY ARE FERAL HOG POPULATIONS SO HARD TO CONTAIN? BECAUSE THE POPULATION ARE BIG AND ALL THEY DO IS KEEP MAKING 100 OF FERAL HOGS AND I THEY DO IS MAKE THEIR MARK EVERYWHERE THEY AT AND THEY ARE TRYING TO STOP THEM BUT THEY CANNOT BECAUSE THERE ARE ABOUT 2 MILLION OF THESE HOGS AND ORDINARY HUNTING AND THESE FERAL HOGS ARE VERY DANGEROUS AND THESE TYPE OF ANIMALS ARE ONLY IN THE SOUTHERN.
You can do anything there, anything at all. The only limit is yourself.
The condescension in that makes it clear that the smug social network is whichever one the author happens to use.
How is mastodon condescending? is this something just to fill that “make something up about a trending topic” quota.
I agree with you. But I think those are the words used by the haters. The artist may have done their homework. The onboarding procedure, the concept of instances, etc., is different or cumbersome, or difficult, whatever. So, if you have trouble figuring it out and you go looking for help you sometimes find these threads or posts/videos saying:
“It is SOOO easy. Just choose an instance. It’s like [insert analogy here], get it? Good! Now have fun and be kind and polite 😸”[1]
And some would use the strongest word possible to describe the situation: condescending.
Personally, I didn’t find that part condescending. And being told to add alt-text isn’t a problem. And using CW for lots of different things isn’t a problem either. I have had one confusing interaction on Mastodon where someone blocked me after accusing me of some offense — a “lost in translation” situation where a non-native speaker misinterpreted what I was saying and before I could explain to them what I was saying, I was blocked… but that can happen on any social network.
not an actual quote ↩︎