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
I’ve noticed there is some kind of filtering (I’m using mammoth app, so maybe it’s the app not mastodon itself), some of your posts were identified as « critical of mastodon » or « personal opinion » and I needed to click on it to read your post. So if that filter could be tweaked somehow to filter « noise » it might be what you’re looking for.
@Esialam those are content warnings. The poster put them there. Which... is not a solution to this problem
@TechConnectify @Esialam Oh okay it’s done manually, I thought it was automated.