It's not funny at all, it's deeply alarming. I'm in the wrong bar.

> and it's darkly funny how HN downvotes this when every single answer on Mastodon is incredibly negative

Mastodon is full of, for the lack of a better word, nuts. Every time I've had the displeasurable experience of clinking a link and seeing that dark violet colour cover my screen I know I'm in for either adults who never matured past their early teenage years or ideological hyperpartisanism, and within five seconds my prejudices are confirmed. Social media doesn't magically fill with rational people the moment you "fix" the infrastructure.

I swear sometimes people get so offended by something they stop thinking. It doesn't have to be all or nothing, you know? Like, you can acknowledge that these are two separate and independent organizations while also having the opinion that you don't like what Internet Archive Europe is doing in this one case and that you feel like IA posting about it is a tacit endorsement of the thing you don't like. Maybe it is enough for you to not support them, that's fine, but don't be intellectually dishonest about it.

Tell me one thing they were right about, please.