Listening to nerds complain about Mastodon is a lesson in why they don’t want to be forced to trust anyone other than big corporations.
“How could instances possibly moderate content?!” I don’t know, the same way it worked before Twitter? Let’s stop pretending there is one true way of running a social network that’ll work perfectly forever.
@adrianhon I mean, speaking as someone who was around and very online back in the mid-90s-2000s (BBSes, MUDs, Usenet, IRC, etc ) I'd argue that it didn't work before. There was no moderation.
I was harassed, sent disgusting dick pics regularly, doxxed, threatened with... Everything you can imagine, stalked ... All for being a woman online.
Don't mistake not noticing/experiencing toxicity personally with some assumption that shit was peachy back in the old days. It wasn't.
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