@Sheril I can't see this as a good thing. A good chunk of the toxicity on Twitter comes directly from journalists. Not only that, a majority used Twitter as a broadcast medium, then spent their time complaining that their followers are angry trolls.

The fewer journalists on the Fediverse, the better. Last time they tried to join, they spent 2 months complaining about features missing that were used to harass others... then went back to the Nazis on Twitter

@sortius @Sheril Yes, there are plenty of toxic journalists on Twitter, but the Twitter algorithm rewards toxidity.

It's better for everyone if journalists operate in a non-toxic environment. And if they insist on being toxic, they get called out on it or blocked.

@juergen_hubert @Sheril it'd be nice if it worked that way. There's been repeated instances of journalists bringing their toxicity here. I still have journa.host blocked, as do many people.

Blaming "the algorithm" for people's behaviour is the vogue right now, we just need to be conscious of the dangers of blaming everything on "the algorithm"

@sortius @juergen_hubert @Sheril it's not vogue. Nobody is blaming the algorithm for bad human behaviour, but for spreading that behaviour to generate engagement.

I see almost no awful behaviour here, because the people I follow don't repost it.

On Twitter, I get posts from people arguing and being awful pushed on my timeline.

@aristeon89 @juergen_hubert @Sheril really? You see "almost no awful behaviour here"?

I see it every time journalists arrive on the platform. There was the refusal for journa.host, the journalists instance, to remove trans-hate. There was the time journalists started harassing admins and devs to add features no one wanted. Oh, and there's the unending "Mastodon won't work without advertising" from the very same journalists