sciatrix

Mmmmmmmmmmhm. I sometimes think that especially the kind of Linux-friendly no-one's-gonna-control-me decentralization-is-the-way-to-go types underweight the costs of learning all of the poorly documented home-made tools that everyone pays, because those sorts of folks a) are usually experts in the platform types and generally coding specialists of some stripe, so maintaining this expertise is literally part of their day job and relatively cheap, and b) overweight the costs of centralization relative to the rest of fandom, such that the costs of decentralizing seem a small price to pay, because c) they seem to be less reliant on social networks qua social networks of the variety where the time spent maintaining them is a valuable investment and anything that disrupts those networks can be a heavy price indeed.

I just. There is a very toxic-masculinity flavor of devaluing lasting social connections and the inevitable disruption to those connections that comes with any platform shift of attention that makes me purse my lips and squint.

Disruption for disruption's sake is not a neutral good.