If I was to nominate the two things I find most striking about Mastodon they'd be:
1. the ability to edit posts after posting; this (as my followers will know) is a facility that I use a lot (and thanks to my great crew of typo spotters);
2. the norm of civility that we all maintain; of course trolling & slamming is not completely absent, but at least in my timeline & discussions/conversations civility have been the over-riding characteristic of my exchanges.
@ChrisMayLA6 I concur wholeheartedly with both points you made, Chris.
The worst thing I can say about my time on Mastodon is that I've been called an idiot twice in 3 years.
Insults and foul language directed at me were a daily occurrence on Twitter.
My experience has been broadly similar, even when I have disagreed with people and they with me, things are always similar. In this I find that Fedi is more akin to real life, and that is perhaps due to their not being any rage baiting algorithms.
There are of course exceptions, not least people migrating from toxic platforms and bringing bad habits here...
@alexadeswift @ChrisMayLA6 Those folk get short shrift from me.
And the block button. :)
Likewise!!!
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