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Alright, we appear to have uncovered something with the help of y'all.
Twitter had a featured apparently called "Quality Filter" - this was probably turned on at some point unbeknownst to me once I crossed X-number of followers but was opt-in otherwise.
This was undoubtedly the thing that hid nasty replies and prevented them from showing up in my notifs. And if this wasn't on for you (or you didn't have access) that may explain why my lived experience Over There has been easier than here.
@TechConnectify interesting - first I've heard of it tbh.
But yeah, major platforms spend a LOT of effort building super-user stuff (for both good and bad end results), and Mastodon has essentially none of that.
Do you think it's a thing that could be (mostly) solved client-side? Like filter out comments with few followers / no favorites / sentiment analysis? And just general activity-volume-management, I've had a taste of that once and yeah - Mastodon desperately needs better tools there.
@groxx It could be done client-side, but that would lose the secondary benefit of nuking the potential for engagement.
That was one way to remove the incentive for people to be dicks - if they didn't get any sort of response, they might stop. Or at least cut back. Hopefully.
@TechConnectify oh yeah, totally agreed - there are major benefits to centralized control and Mastodon is unlikely to ever reach that level of polish. Shadow banning stuff is *amazingly* effective.
At best I could see it built as a custom-server feature, but I don't think it has been big enough to build up that level of effort yet (if it ever does). I'm mostly thinking that client side could at least help some, and wouldn't require changing servers because that's still an awful experience.