this is a subtoot.
if you walk into a brand new place and criticize it with no understanding of its history, maybe walk back out.
@_jeremygray this is common sense, but you're assuming that once they get to know the history they'd change their mind. sometimes people just know themselves, expectations, triggers. e.g.: moral brands (like mastodon) ain't a plus to me. a product is a product. I'd walk away even with a full understanding
@_jeremygray I agree with you. but often, especially with "lovebrands", a disagreement is taken as shitting (because people are personally invested in those brands). it goes both way. I will not say "your house is ugly, stinks and ran by monkeys", but you've to accept the eventuality I do not like it. even if the history of the monkeys is fuckin' amazing