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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.
And my complaints are really just about that - quality and volume of replies.
I have received some ugly stuff here, but nothing that is even actionable by moderation. I don't think it's crossed that line. So people saying "just do this!" largely don't understand the scope of the problem. At least, I think that's where we're at now.
What I'm yearning for is a filter to separate signal from noise. Because now everything is signal - which means it's all noise.
@TechConnectify one of my joys on Mastodon has been chatting to people who on twitter I'd have been invisible to - probably because of said filters. You had to play the system there and sort of hustle for engagement, in order to get noticed at all.
That won't have been a thing for you, because you're making quality content and people clearly like it, so of course you wouldn't have been filtered out and left unnoticed.
But I get why it evolved that way, and can now see how it saves overwhelm.
@sarajw I want to stress that, at least as far as how my experience went, I would see most replies. It was only people being dicks that were getting filtered out.
Of course there will be some collateral damage when the filter makes a mistake, but I wouldn't go so far as to say people were invisible to me. Almost all people weren't!
@TechConnectify That may be true, but I'm still going to celebrate that I actually get counter-replies here when I didn't over there!
Guess it's just a numbers game, in that my account here has grown alongside people I admired there, and was essentially invisible to (they had thousands of followers and I was a small drop in a huge ocean) - even if I wasn't filtered, I was probably one of a whole deluge of replies.
You obvs can't pay attention to every reply when there are hundreds.
@sarajw Oh, I've noticed that the quality of engagement here is — usually — much better than over there.
I think that's the plus side of the no-filters, all-chronological approach.
The downside of it is that with a larger following, you're exposed to a lot of stuff that's not healthy for anybody.
@TechConnectify yeah, I'm sorry you're having to deal with that :(
People can really have such different experiences here.