My experience so far here is not terribly different from Twitter, to be honest. I'm here because most of the people I care about moved. But a substantial fraction of my mentions are people interpreting my every word as uncharitably as possible and telling me what an awful person I must be.
When blocking them gets too exhausting, I'll probably just drop off, and you'll have to tell me how awful I am via email or USPS. In person by appointment only,
It's entirely possible this is happening because, in fact, I'm really awful, and people are simply reacting to my awfulness. In which case, I'm sorry I'm ruining this place for you, and I'll try to do better.
But really, I think it's scale. At peak, I had about 90K followers on Twitter. Here I already have about 12.5K. At that scale, people want you to fit their expectations.
That said, the Nazis and election crazies aren't here (yet), and that's really nice.
@mattblaze I think the main benefit with Mastodon is that a lot of the crazies will find themselves on their own individual crazy islands as admins of instances block them/remove them.
Sure, some will still make it in, and you can't scrub the world clean of nut cases but in the long run I feel like Mastodon will be an easier platform to avoid a lot of that type of stuff.
@mattblaze I am just glad that Mastodon currently feels... quieter than Twitter has especially over the last few years.
Who knows what will happen if/when the crazies finally start coming over here because their favorite punching bags left their swamp. But yeah at that point I think having a good admin team will be big for sure.
Matt Blaze
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