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Well, last night's thread sure was (and continues to be) a wild ride.
I'll be blunt here: please believe me that I'm experiencing problems frequently enough to make me not like this place. And **please** try to understand how a repeated onslaught of suggestions on how I myself need to solve those problems doesn't give me much solace.
If I have to be responsible for managing this with whatever tools or strategies you throw at me just to be here happily, that's not something I need in my life.
Please feel free to tell me to pound sand. I don't need to be here, and "successful YouTubers" is hardly a marginalized group.
But also understand that I *want* to be here. I'm not leveraging this platform to spread my videos, I'm here to offer a way for people to connect with me. And I'm here to have fun.
At this point I need to self-censor a /lot/ to keep it fun. I'll try that for a while, but it's a damn shame I need to do it.
@TechConnectify this is in no way justifying any of what you've experienced (sorry about that), but on a more practical note, have you considered moving to an instance where moderation isn't a shitshow? i can give you an invite for the treehouse if you like (we also run a mastodon fork that patches some of the most annoying problems)
@dysfun @TechConnectify Yeah, my minor pet peeve is when people treat Mastodon/The Fediverse like it's a single platform.
It's infinite platforms in infinite combinations. And it's trivial to spin up an instance of one if none of the others are your vibe.
@JustinH @dysfun and yet, the whole point is that these instances talk to each other in a single place and feed. Does nobody understand how from my side of the screen this is expressing two completely incompatible thoughts at the same time?
I understand what you are saying. If my instance is too loosey-goosey about federation or moderation, I might have a better experience on a different instance. But my /actual/ problem is that I'm a big-ish account that lots of people follow.
@JustinH @dysfun I am always going to be exposed to the cracks between moderation. As a matter of fact.
So when I'm here telling people that I think the moderation tools don't work that well for someone like me, and I just get told to do something different or get disbelieved, it's yet another thing keeping me from enjoying myself here.