@wonkothesane I'll be real with you: this platform needs both better tools for those with large accounts and it needs a culture which isn't quite so trigger-happy to push popular accounts off the platform.

There are frictions here which are very hard to understand for the majority of its users.

@TechConnectify @wonkothesane

Little confused when you say culture that isn't trigger happy to push big creators off the platform.

So from my perspective, I have shared your video in two places and star'd the post.

I don't have optics on any aggressive actions towards you, but I'm also not looking THAT hard. In what ways are people trying to push you off?

@BlueBee I think if you go to his posts he explains what the experience has been on Mastodon:

https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112995453946857071

https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112995384978750186

https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112995184785622503

@oldgeek

Ah, I didn't realize there was more that he had spoken about.

That is one thing (of many) I am frustrated by with social media. The sort of disjointed nature of it. He had made the arguments in the past, but it wasn't in THAT post.

@BlueBee @oldgeek I'll remark that I've seen someone (can't recall who) *explicitly* state that the goal was to chase him off for being a popular YouTuber.

That prompted me to state: This is not on!

@alcinnz @oldgeek

I'm not sure what else can be done except begin regulating posts, but a central regulator is obviously bad. Too much power in too few hands.

I think we should probably have our own review structure of people kind of like steam does for games. But you get to say who's reviews you trust and you ignore everyone else's.

Where you and me and other people can say if we trust someone or not and then if you trust them their opinion of people affects the trust levels of others. And then allow people to be sortable by your personal trust levels for them.

I don't know if I'm explaining that well, but I don't want to spend too much time on it right now. Hopefully it gives the jist of the idea. If someone is a troll, I don't want to see them. But I don't trust a giant corporation to tell me who is and isn't a troll. YouTube surfaced Jordan Peterson to me and that man is an idiot.

So much of the pain people feel reading comments would be alleviated if we had a bit more proof required before allowing people to take up air time. I'm not saying turn people off, but label them differently, trolls shouldn't show up the same as someone who will engage with you with care.

@BlueBee @oldgeek Rate limiting was a suggestion...

Maybe sentiment analysis software...

@alcinnz @oldgeek

I really only trust who I trust.

If you say sentiment analysis I'm now trusting the software and the writer of the software.

I would prefer people's opinions, and especially those who I trust.

Just allow me to say if I trust people or not and allow others to subscribe to that trust or not.

And allow me on the fly to disagree with someone else's trust. Someone shows up as gold trust with a flurry of bad takes. Let me override and say I don't need to hear them anymore.