James PoniewozikA lot of Mastodon advice I’m seeing seems to be geared toward “How to replicate your Twitter experience” or “Can Mastodon replicate your Twitter experience?”
But… I don’t WANT to replicate my Twitter experience. 1/more
My Twitter experience was kinda bad for me! It was good for a long time, but it was also bad. I’m not talking about the takeover by Captain 420, or people tweeting mean things at me. I mean the constantly feeling like a exposed nerve. The “let me show you this awesome new thing to be mad about!”
I love, for instance, that Mastodon doesn’t have the equivalent of a QT. There are plenty other platforms to do the “Hey, look at this asshole here” thing. The, “Does this smell bad to you?” thing. /2
Alan Sepinwall@poniewozik The lack of QT is a mixed bag for me. On the one hand, I'm entirely with you that too many of my Twitter follows would use it to put stuff in my timeline just designed to upset me. On the other, I used it a lot to more easily discuss things that are on-topic to what I cover, and what people presumably were following me for.
Aliakai@sepinwall @poniewozik I read a study recently that when toxic behavior was effectively curbed, users spent 25% less time on platforms, which is HUGE when it comes to the economics of advertising dollars and the like. This explains the seeming contradiction between the hard on paper policies against abuse and the promotion by the algorithm of inflammatory material.