@KristinaWKelly 💡Super-thoughtful share. Echoing Shephard, there's more to worry about online now than in 1999.

From what I could gleen, malicious actors can impersonate/harm anyone on these smaller platforms and a user's line of defense in slim to none.

On Mastodon, I think (?) we can report and block a user, but then it's up the that specific instance's admin to review and act.

Rahaeli's rundown on how she evaluates new social platforms is very helpful:
https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1594756281650524160?t=oBoocoXmkRBvJ2d0RHqRBA&s=19

rahaeli on Twitter

“And a followup thread that I'm doing as a separate thread so people don't have to read the horribleness if they don't feel like they're in a good place for it right now: the bare minimum I look at when evaluating a new service for "do I sign up or not".”

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