Ok, Mastodon is officially a lot more awesome than I had realised. There's a federated server for everyone who's really into bitcoin, and, yes, it is full of people who are as awful as you can imagine. But, with one click, you can block the entire domain! 12.8k thousand crypto weirdos filtered out in a click. Amazing.

@SteveCooke I was just talking with @aurynn yesterday about how yes, there's an entire CHUNK of the fediverse that's flooded with horrible people, even though a lot of folks keep accusing the fediverse of being strictly left-leaning.

But they're not whining about the "left-leaning" thing because they can't have their own spaces. They're whining because they feel entitled to impose their horribleness on other people. They're whining because they want their actions to have no consequences.

Anyway yes I love that hexagons can just exist OVER THERE, where they're not my problem anymore lol

@zkat @SteveCooke @aurynn it's also interesting that in the cases where you haven't yet blocked them, and you see messages from them, every single one of those messages are inevitability absolutely horrible.

It's like these people are absolutely incapable of posting anything that is not carefully designed to be as awful as possible.

I mean, it makes it easier to decide what servers to block, but it's remarkable that just just single focused they are on spreading a single type of message.

@loke @zkat @SteveCooke @aurynn As Al Franken recently quoted Margaret Atwood on @ASlavitt 's In The Bubble podcast: "what do you have to remember is it was fun being a Nazi. The thing about this cruelty is they have fun. They have fun being cruel."