It’s a cloudy sunny day, bright but most of the sky is covered in those thin clouds like dingy torn sheets of paper. It’s been an eventful week in the realm of social media and it might surprise you I have things to say.
You know how rarely I express my opinion.
So that was a joke if you are new to me, also hi. Onward.
I’ve noticed a spate of people who, when confronted with something problematic they’ve said, they try to pretend they didn’t say it, or they indignantly act as though the confrontation itself is the problem. This isn’t new, of course.
But we can see it far more clearly now on Spoutible than we could on previous social media. Why?
On other sites, you get a rush of trolls who change the subject and obscure the original point. They disagree in a way that makes it difficult for other to agree and not fear a similar onslaught. This is done through a lot of awful people but also several people with slews of accounts who amplify themselves and support themselves.
That’s not the case on Spoutible.
So when someone tries to say they didn’t say what they said, or deletes it to lie more emphatically, people can see the person saying here is the proof that you said it. And that person is not met with a rancid inbox full of vile hatred.
That old coping method simply doesn’t work. The becoming the victim by claiming the criticism isn’t a criticism but something else doesn’t work for the same reason, proof is either there or it isn’t.
And in this way, Spoutible demands maturity from its users. How to handle a situation like this?
It’s not hard.
Admit what you said, admit it was wrong, and apologize sincerely. To me that sounds easier than days and weeks and months of feuding.
Even if you don’t believe what you said was wrong, it is possible to reach common ground if you are willing to listen to other people. And maybe if you do, you can understand how it is harmful and hurtful to others. Maybe you can see how stigmatizing people or demanding to marginalize marginalized people leads to real world consequences and attitudes.
Or maybe you’re just a jerk, but if that’s the case, essentially any other social media platform is there to allow you to be as horrible and awful and bigoted and “ist” as you want to be. Any other social media platform lets you stay exactly who you are, even when that’s not someone a lot of people would like to know.
Only Spoutible challenges you to learn and grow.
That’s it for me this Wednesday, have a great day.
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