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@TechConnectify @xabean I'm really sorry to hear your experience has sucked in several respects. When I joined mastodon I was genuinely really excited to see you here since I'm a big fan of your YouTube content. If you decide you don't wish to stay here I'll miss seeing your delightfully esoteric takes and general nerdery, but I can see how the platform has been rough given your size of audience
@TechConnectify Part of me wonders if some of mastodon's toxicity comes frm appealing largely to nerds, pedants, & people who want to be "against" whatever the popular take is, or feel smarter than everyone else- in this case, being against/smarter than twitter & broader social media. Those tend to be the same bad actors in the open source space in my exp. :( they bring their practiced behaviors of "my opinion is the right opinion, and if you disagree thats cause you're dumb" to evry interaction
I’m going to post a screenshot which is probably bad form however I think it illustrates this very clearly
“That thing is bad and the people who use it is bad, look at them looking at their phone updates!” AS IF THEY AREN’T DOING THE SAME THING ON MASTODON.
@CrisColor @TechConnectify that’s a huge part of the cultural challenge.
@TechConnectify I guess I'm confused about the comparison to twitter.
However you feel about "your job should not be a job", but that was hardly moderatable harassment on twitter, right?
How would you deal with harrassment on Twitter other than blocking and muting? Or are you saying that you just tend to get more 'less nice' comments here compared twitter because social/cultural reasons?
@joshhunt Either they automatically turned on the quality filter as I grew (because I never did it myself) or they have some special sauce for bigger accounts because the fact is /I did not see this sort of stuff at all/
It would be hidden by the filter. Or, if it somehow made it through, it usually wouldn't become a notification and feedback from other users ("this is a bad take" / getting ratioed) would throw it way down to the bottom of the replies where it stopped getting engagement.
@joshhunt Fundamentally there is a disconnect between the needs of someone like myself (who has a large audience and is likely to attract all sorts of people) and a smaller user who may be subject to real harassment and harm.
But some sort of filter has to get implemented for larger accounts to have a good time here - or at the very least, there need to be REAL signals that others can put out to have a negative (and positive!) reinforcement mechanism.
That social part just doesn't exist here.
