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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 I can’t imagine how much of a pain in the ass toxic people can be when you start getting even a little success on YouTube. You must feel like you wish you could hire someone to screen your comments.
@mos_8502 This is the thing though! This is the thing that I feel like nobody understands.
Despite the fact that I'm sure my YouTube comments are so much more toxic on the whole than what I get here on Mastodon, /I don't see them/
I have to go into my YouTube studio and look at comments in chronological order if I want to even notice that drivel. Otherwise, it gets filtered way down low and I never have to see it.
To be honest, that's what I want here. Some automatic ranking of quality
@mos_8502 but a lot of people are fundamentally against that here, admittedly for some good reasons.
On the other hand though, I don't think it should be thought of as a right to get your thoughts in front of somebody else. When someone is actually being problematic, enough signal makes it through the noise for that person to hear it.
Here though, everything is signal and nothing is noise. Which means it's all noise.
@TechConnectify For comparison’s sake, what was it like on Twitter for that sort of dickish commentary?
@mos_8502 I rarely ever saw it. It would be hidden under "more replies" which, to put that in Mastodon parlance, functioned like content warning.
And if it was bad enough, Twitter just wouldn't let me see it at all.
The people on the other side were mad that they were being shadowbanned or whatever, I'm sure. But it was a hell of a boon for my mental health and made the platform a lot easier to navigate than this one.
@TechConnectify @mos_8502 only in small bites (probably because I’ve retracted from here a bit myself) but I’ve experienced this too and immediately made this place way less desirable to be whenever a post gets “popular”. Fucking manifestos getting thrown out left and right that id never see over on bird app
@TechConnectify @EposVox @mos_8502 I'd love to know why people do this, do people not have anywhere else to pour their own unrelated frustration to and fixate on "hey this person has a platform lets go complain" or something?