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’ve seen it noted that the civility follows the “social contract” formulation of tolerance.
E.g. people join, feel “safe” enough to start making transphobic comments, refuse to listen to polite responses and requests to please not, and then get chased out of the fediverse screaming “so much for the tolerant left!”.
I feel this is not an ideal solution, but I’m not sure how else it could go while still maintaining said social contract.
Of course, they are always welcome to create their own shard of the fediverse. That’s the whole point of the fediverse.
Rule one of fedi: Do not piss off the cat girls
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