So. Three folks I follow are echoing pretty much the same sentiment I've been trying to express and are spending less time here.
I'll preface with a reminder that you may very well feel my opinions are bunk. I am a successful YouTuber, after all, with all the privileges that entails.
But here's the brass tacks: it's harder for me to be here comfortably than it was on the birdsite. And to be honest, I think Mastodon's always gonna be this way.
Whenever I encounter problems, I am inevitably told I should try different instance. Whenever anybody has problems, people say "maybe you should move instances"
I do not know why so many people fail to grasp this, but we are experiencing mastodon between instances far more than we are on our own. I hardly ever look at the home tab for mas.to, I look at who I'm following on the Home feed.
That in-betweeny space is apparently impossible to moderate.
If a post of mine gets a boosted to a broader audience, I am subject to harassment. I'm not going to sugarcoat that, it's harassment.
Sure, of the various kinds of harassment I have not been subject to anything serious. But it is exhausting and personally insulting, with one person telling me in no uncertain terms that they don't believe my job should be a job.
This. Fucking. Sucks.
And who's accountable for taming that? Nobody! Because it's between instances.
@michaelgemar Twitter, for one! If for no other reason that it could automatically detect most harassment and make it hard to find or shadow ban it completely.
But that would be introducing an algorithm to the things you see, which people don't want
@TechConnectify Huh — my priors would have been that Twitter was bad at that sort of thing.
It’s really unfortunate there are no good current solutions on Mastodon. Its nature does allow for lots of experimentation, including by…instances…, but the fix clearly doesn’t exist yet.
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There are lots of alternative clients/servers that aren't Mastodon with the potential to handle this better. (E.g. Firefish has interface-plugins) Unfortunately the whole Fediverse is not a mature system yet so we are all still finding our ways.
Because technically this is a non-issue, just fork and improve the system, done. But a) most people aren't able to do that and b) even if some did it getting the people that need it to use it is hard.
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