It seems like tpotters share an intuition that follow policing, bad-faith-reporting, and other power-thirsty behavior leads to a death spiral, so they resist those things to preserve the system. Some others obviously don’t see things that way.
agree, I think tpot ppl do lean anti-authoritarian... it's like, understanding that ACAB is a structural problem not a case of "bad ppl" who can be replaced by "good ppl"
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Reply · May 6, 2023lol what??? is there some malign force in tpot trying to steer ppl to do particular things?Reply · May 3, 2023yeah I think it suits me bec I have relatives w various extreme politics and yet like... we're still family regardlessReply · May 1, 2023and we talk abt tpot as if it's one entity but each account in it only follows a subset of other tpot accounts and often has others muted / blocked w…Reply · Jan 4, 2023@samswoora Yeah I’ve been thinking about this… part of what makes tpot work is feeling like it’s an iterated game, you work on earning your follows…