Paul GrahamIt's been interesting comparing Twitter and Mastodon. One of the big differences I notice is that the ratio of mockery to substantive replies is much lower on Mastodon. So if you're going to use both, maybe Mastodon is the place to try out novel ideas first.
Balaji V@paulg I wonder if it is due to the lesser number of folks here or the type of folks here (right now the barrier to entry to mastodon is a little high)
@Balaji For sure the people here on Mastodon are different. But I think Twitter's design also encourages a culture of mockery. Especially quote-tweeting.
NickKauf 
@paulg @Balaji very early Twitter wasn't a dunking game, instead you scored points more with "I was here" or "look at this thing" .. snark gradually grew somehow (snark kind of took over a lot of media at some point as a way to get more views) and then by the time the algorithmic feed came in the game had totally changed. Its hard having lived through a decade of it to remember how much the tone changed but since we all have our downloaded archives hopefully its interesting to go back a look