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I had that issue here too in an org here in the Netherlands. I was working on the tech end, and a lot of our time was spent transferring events from Facebook t
by TomSwirly 5y ago
I had that issue here too in an org here in the Netherlands.
I was working on the tech end, and a lot of our time was spent transferring events from Facebook to other platforms by hand. I asked, "Why are we on Facebook? These guys are completely against us!" and everyone looked patronizingly at the old guy and said, "We need to get our message across in every platform!"
They were completely clueless, and I loved them, but I had to leave.
In particular, there was one guy working with us who had spent their whole lives working for [large company directly opposed to this org].
I asked him once in passing when he left and he didn't answer. I thought nothing of it, but he started to refuse to answer other questions - not in a hostile way, just always changing the subject.
Then I talked to someone else, and this guy had tried to sneak himself in as a "superadministrator" in another project, even after he'd been explicitly told not to. They asked him about why he did that, and again, he just acted as though he had never been asked.
More of this stuff happened. Particularly, the whole "gaslighting and pretending you never answered the question" got to me.
Eventually I brought this up in a meeting with a few people in charge. Everyone thought I was crazy - but trying to hack into a system and then refusing to answer questions, and being thrown off that project?
I left.
The worst part was I liked the guy, and we never argued or anything.
- rakoo 5y agoThat's an interesting point of view, and a paranoid person would question the true motives of such a person in that org: were they in for the collective ? For personal gains ? Working as an agent for a third-party ? > I asked, "Why are we on Facebook? These guys are completely against us!" and everyone looked patronizingly at the old guy and said, "We need to get our message across in every platform!" This is actually a point I totally agree with: you have to talk to people where they are, especially when they don't already agree with you. But in my opinion it sends a wrong image and such orgs should use Libre Software and decentralized networks first, and only on top of that use FB/Twitter as a copy-paste of the main platforms. There's a very important step to do that is to categorize who your target is. Basically it's a bunch of concentric rings: those who agree with you, then those who are questioning and need a bit of information, then those who aren't thinking about the subject yet... you have to convince those around you, who will convince those around them, and on and on. In that vein, sticking to decentralized platforms first and gradually growing makes a lot of sense