@noracodes broadly, this place needs an etiquette. I have some ideas on how to make that happen, which I have shared with the appropriate folks.
The thing is, I'm on the other side of the automatic moderation coin. Twitter became better for me as a larger user because it would automatically hide people prodding me or being jerks in general. I don't know if I necessarily want that specific thing here, but there needs to be a way for the *crowd* to signal "this is a bad take"
@noracodes the moderation tools everyone tells me to use are the tools I would use as a last resort on Twitter.
Some of that comes from my privilege. Did I ever get a death threat on Twitter? I don't think I did actually. I muted and blocked probably a dozen people the whole time.
But a big part of that was because jerky behavior was seen by other people and called out. Here, it's never called out. And half the time it's not even seen. But the firehose sure makes it to my notifications.
@TechConnectify
You're definitely right that it's so hard to deal with the firehose here as like you say, Mastodon hasn't yet grown or adapted to accommodate people with the large followerships that can get overwhelming.
Some clients do bunch together likes and boosts etc as much as possible, but I don't personally know of one that sort of ranks and hides the hundreds of responses you must be getting. I do like that people aren't ranked here, but how else to hide hundreds of reply guys