but overall, it's the culture that determines the experience, the people, the moderation, the peer pressure, and the examples you see around you

the tech can only guide you into this direction or that, and in twitter it clearly went the wrong way with scary efficiency, but the situation isn't symmetric

because when you dig down to the roots of the problem you're going to realise:

you can't fix cunts with code

thank you for listening to my ted talk

of course the technical framework does have an effect on the culture (although it by no means determines it), but the things that have the most effect are the things mastodon DOESN'T have:

- algorithmic timeline
- quote tweets
- fetishisation of an arbitrary character limit
- reach/engagement metrics shoved in everyone's face

you get the idea

btw, this might be an interesting thing to consider when mooting new features for mastodon

no, what makes mastodon different is what for want of a better word i have to call the culture

that's what makes this a much more tolerable experience compared to the birdsite, and that's what needs to be nurtured, protected and grown