2026-04-07 15:01 UTC
Replies (22)
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@avuko@infosec.exchange 2026-04-07 15:09
@haubles If someone has expertise in (u)X, that doesn’t mean they know anything about (communit)Y. Thanks for handling this, clearly with actual expertise.🙏🏻
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@LilPecan@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 15:24
@haubles I'd argue shitposting is not engagement.
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@kevin@mastodon.km6g.us 2026-04-07 15:56
@haubles Let's all hope the day when 'engagement' stops being a thing that social media users care about is sooner than later.
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@darkpixel@infosec.exchange 2026-04-07 15:59
@haubles Mad respect lol
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@troed@swecyb.com 2026-04-07 16:02
@haubles I would be more interested in knowing whether Gargron's puppy killer post does.
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@SharpCheddarGoblin@kolektiva.social 2026-04-07 16:20
@haubles He should not be advising any aspect of Mastodon development. I hope you kick him to the curb and find others who align with Fediverse ideals, not FAANG and startup culture.
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@mirth@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-07 16:21
@haubles I couldn't discern a real point of view in his thread. I don't even know if there is a "Mastodon community", or if the "Twitter community" even existed in the way he seems to think it did. The Mastodon experience I see is no doubt very different from what other people get, and that is mostly a feature rather than a bug.
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@64bithero@mstdn.games 2026-04-07 16:25
@haubles I am confused , I didn’t hear any one allude to Mastodon staff taking this persons side. Don’t know if anything had to be said. He’s just like every other social media leach. I wasn’t taking to be anything official. Maybe I missed something
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@IntheMesh_@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 16:51
@haubles I understand this disclaimer, but i do think apologizing is a little strange. You guys didn't do anything. At no point did I think Scott's opinions represented Mastodon as an org, nor do I get that impression from his profile. It might be prudent to require a "Opinions not endorsed by employer" blurb in Masto employee bios though. I just hope this doesn't get him fired. Seems some people want to make a bigger deal out of this then it should be, imo.
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@lfzz@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 17:03
@haubles everyone is allowed to be wrong. Mastodon does not need to compete with vc backed companies .
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@stefanie@social.anoxinon.de 2026-04-07 18:56
@haubles I found it most fascinating that he kept talking about a "bigger tent", and didn't even engage the argument that mastodon simply is NOT a single tent, neither big nor small. It is a campground with many tents of varying sizes, each on with own rules and community. He also completely disregards the fact that many people came to mastodon specifically to escape the relentless onslaught of AI (content and functions) being forced into literally every other platform.
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@stepheneb@ruby.social 2026-04-07 18:57
@haubles Scott seemed to be in a quite emotionally volatile place and often not responding with clarity and understanding to folks with criticisms or different points of view. And also not responding to abusive shit posters by ignoring and/or blocking.
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@tschigi@swiss.social 2026-04-07 19:04
@haubles Thank you, I think this is a good decision🤘
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-07 19:08
@haubles What kind of journalist calls himself “carnage4life”? When I was a kid, journalists had names like “Peter Jennings”, their shows had names like “World News Tonight”, and they didn't whine about their viewers not fawning sufficiently. Maybe my glasses are rose-tinted, but I miss when most adults did their jobs with competence and professionalism.
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@tekhedd@byteheaven.net 2026-04-07 19:14
@haubles Politics? AI (also politics)? Tech topic? I like Mastodon because people post about stuff they like, not repost stuff they think is trendy.
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@BackFromTheDud@mas.to 2026-04-07 19:22
@haubles I think Mastodon is anything but lukewarm to politics!
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@kikebenlloch@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 19:31
@haubles I would have never guessed the weirdest take on Mastodon habits/tendencies would come from someone so close to the project 😳 I was this close to replying yesterday but refrained because... Where do I begin.
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@s1m0n4@ohai.social 2026-04-07 20:35
@haubles also is there a way to get stats on all #Mastodon users? What is the data for stating that people are leaving? Because if they're leaving instances hosted in the US, I have a valid explanation for that and it has nothing to do with Mastodon.
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@crumbletiltskin@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 20:45
@haubles Assuming they have removed bots from these stats?
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@davep@infosec.exchange 2026-04-07 20:46
@haubles 🤣
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@slothrop@chaos.social 2026-04-07 20:49
@haubles uh, that took a while? I’m looking forward to reading the Mastodon team’s statement on the matter.
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@AinsleyLowbeer@mastodon.social 2026-04-08 00:01
@haubles Yeah, I blocked this guy when I was on Twitter. He is as racist as they come.