I dunno, I can't speak for anyone, but I don't think people being scared is unreasonable given the circumstances, and...well...Mastodon has a lot of fatalists. Not saying it's healthy.
Not asking you to put up with it, either; I appreciate your work.
I get that it's exhausting, but I do think characterizing them as a foreign-influence operation is, sometimes, being a bit unfair to people who are truly scared, not that that helps the tenth time you've seen it in a day.
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
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