Cast by pichi
Show the cast this replies toIf I had logged in and my account had been banned, I would have been so hurt and frustrated. I can imagine that if you’ve put YEARS into this place, are a real human being and have not been an obvious wallet draining scam account, a ban would be DEVASTATING. I would have reacted poorly. I only use this place as my socials. If it was suddenly gone, I would have freaked out. I can’t be mad at anyone caught in the crosshairs. They have every right to be mad, frustrated, upset, and pissed off about retroactive bans. I think it’s an uphill battle. I don’t think all hope is lost. I won’t be mad if people picked sides. I would have picked one too if I got caught in the ban wave and I may have given up on this place. I feel their frustration. I don’t think it will be easy but I think this place is worth fighting for.
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Here with you. But to be clear, my examples were not from the banned. Maybe they've said things in desperation. But you can't hold that against them. Also: one of us may have received a ban just now. Your reply was not loading in my fc client....
You haven’t been on the receiving end of “said things in desperation” so yes, I can & will hold things against them. I was extremely empathetic when this all happened, I reached out, tried to even advocate for some. That advocacy was mocked and used against me. For those who have been respectful to me, my empathy remains and I’ll continue those relationships. For others, they burned that bridge and it is what it is. The positive: the push to make alternative clients actual first class citizens is fantastic. Love seeing this. I also am very interested in seeing where Balaji takes this next version of the experiment. I’ll continue to be here for that — I already had an interest in Network States. And without a drastic new approach, it’s likely FC would have continued its demise. The protocol remains even as the main client changes. I truly appreciate your comments @pichi but you seem to be afforded the benefit of doubt to be able to use multiple clients and no one came at you day one to “pick a side.” My experience over this past week has been the worst of my 4 years here. But for those who thought mocking me, insulting me, posting passive aggressive cryptic comments on alt clients and X would encourage me to support them, you truly never knew me. If they wanted me to “choose their side” they went about it in the worst possible way.
Things have gone too far, and I don't believe you deserved the nasty remarks. Even though I can't speak for others, I do believe that a week later, people are not as emotional as they were. Emotions ran, and as someone who was not on the receiving side of said remarks I can understand that completely, very high. I do agree that the push for using alternative clients is a positive thing for the community. However, I do not share your enthousiasm for the new management. Although I celebrate connections that cross borders, I do not believe in creating elite societies and seeing the world as black and white (or grey and blue as the current management sees it). And of course we (okay, I speak for myself, but I think @pichi experienced the same) were also pushed to pick a side. I refused to, in the sense that I will not side with the new management, but I will not abandon my friends who do. I, contrary to the new management, do like differing opinions, even ungraciously formulated ones.
I’m so sorry people were so terrible to you. You’ve been such a huge advocate for so many people on this platform, I’m shook that anyone dared to say otherwise. I’ve been very removed from all of this as I’ve been playing tour guide for friends and changing countries so I’ve missed a lot of what’s going on, and I don’t have an X account. I’m so sorry you’ve had to go through all this!
I hope this isn't ture prof 😔 I was astonished by some of the things I read on one of the threads. They were out of line. I hope we can all be together again some day 🫂
Not going to lie it was really frustrating to see people come at you like that. I get people are frustrated because obviously I am too. But the users, whatever their choice happened to be, are not the problem here.
I think we should make a concerted effort to build bridges. I failed at one, because I may have come across as too preachy. But I think on both sides, I am trying to speak up for empathy and kindness.
With a caveat: The bridge can only go from the more closed option towards the more open option. I cannot in good conscience recommend anyone invest any time or clout into building on Balajis’ shifting sand. They’ve demonstrated what they’re comfortable with doing; believe them.
The protocol has to be open. I’m totally here for shadowing obvious hate speech. I’m not here for censoring free speech.
Can speak for a previously banned user. It didn’t feel great and still unclear as they didn’t give specific reasons but after looking at farcaster.xyz/~/code feel I was likely caught in the crossfire from some out of context politically incorrect bullshit But the appeal process was quick and required little effort
Statuette, Cassie and a whole lot of other OG's have been setting crypto Twitter on fire with harangues against "Farpcaster" and the new regime. They been saying less than thrilling things about those who didn't vote no. (Not statuette and Cassie though)
tbh i would have said and done exactly the same things now, and I actually think this fracture is good as far as an easy way of getting ppl's revealed preferences
