Mastodawn

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.

#Mastodon #civility #SocialMedia

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Petra van Cronenburg 12h ago

@ChrisMayLA6 I would like to add 3. Real human moderators. Only this week, I had to report several guys for harassment, hate, and one scraping our data. It took only a short time, they were gone.
But at the same time it's one of the weakest points (Mastodon is constantly working on it) because offenders change to instances without moderation, blocks are not real blocks, they can do bad things you don't see. Many write their hate by PM: it's hidden. They act with screenshots. It's a big problem.

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Petra van Cronenburg

@ChrisMayLA6 That one can't see the hate, doesn't mean that it wouldn't be here. Please listen to the people who constantly get it because of their colour, gender, profession and other reasons. Please believe these people even if you can't see it.
It's one of the points where the Fediverse fights well but also often doesn't have the capacities (moderators) or technical design (Bsky e.g. has some more effective ones in hard blocks/comment protection).