@stux hello, i would like to ask about something. is it okay to roleplaying around Mastodon? i mean, i found an old user of this platform was saying we were attacking to spreads misleading information, yet we actually aren't.

we're just trying to find any other platform that similar to Twit-ter, then yeah, here we are. i'm sorry about those spam toots, we used to do that on other platform, but seriously, we mean no harm, though. we don't know if those toots would spamming around.

@stux however, we're still newbies on this platform, we'll try to understand how the server works after this, it's not our intention to make such a mess. once again, 'm sorry.. :c

@heejinr

Hey, I'm not Stux, but I can help you, if you want to...

@eef sure, sure! đŸ¥º 'm so shocked after read some toots those are saying we're here to do something bad, whilst we actually not..

@heejinr

Okay, the thing is: Mastodon is not Twitter.

We have a whole different system here. For starters, Stux depends of donations to keep the platform up, he doesn't have family support and he takes care of this all by himself, because it's a really important thing for him.

Here, you're gonna find all types of people: developers, gamers, conspiracionists and etc. You don't need to agree with them, but don't attack them in public.

@heejinr

What was them actually complaining about, is the spam. You're almost 1k of people posting at the same time.

Here we are used to see other people's projects, some news, open discussions about politics and etc. Since a lot of you are spamming, posting at the local/public which is not a chat, we can't see any of this.

This also bad for the instance. Last night, when you arrived, the server stopped working for a few minutes and the was suuuuuper slow.

@heejinr

Also, everything that goes to the local timeline, goes to the public.

The instances besides mstdn.social can't stand spam, so they end up muting/blocking the whole instance, so peoples from those instances can never interact with each other.

That's a really sad thing and we can't let that happen. This is Stux's life!

And you can stop all these things from happening by just telling your friends and others to post "unlisted".

@eef oh my, it was THAT bad, jeez i really have no idea it gonna be that deep, i mean.. okay, i'll tell them to not doing that, i promise 'll do my best for telling them about this, but it was bunch of them around so i think it needs.. time? i wish you guys can bear with that.. đŸ˜”đŸ˜”

@heejinr

I actually think that you are out of time.

He already started the autoreport system, so probably the things will get "better" when he starts to muting the accounts. But hopefully, people will start to post unlisted before that.

@eef okie dokie, i'll keep telling them to unlisted the toots before sending it, thank u anyway for explaining! <3

@heejinr

You're welcome!

And welcome to Mastodon!

@eef thank u once again. <3