I have never met a medium as polite as Mastodon. Sure, even here I have a met impolite people, but only very rarely.
In comment sections of news media, and on Facebook and elsewhere, I have been verbally abused for years for presenting political views, and I have experienced so many death threats, I stopped counting.
But not on Mastodon.
That is my review and you can quote me on that @Gargron.
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in reply to Randahl Fink • •I'd say that is how moderation works.
Btw. - it's not only #Mastodon, but #Fediverse (I'll never stop being annoying with it! 😁)
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Frieke
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •all normal behaved people are here 😉
What does this say about current society / conventions 🤔? Politeness used to be the norm
@Gargron
Randahl Fink
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Oh, buzz off, you dope.
KIDDING!
I've had a few mild cases of rudeness/harassment, but noteworthy only for the rareness.
Randahl Fink
in reply to Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦 • • •@Vagrarian YOU sod off, you bearded gentleman! 😄
(Yes, I am not that good at insults)
David Wood
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •xs4me2
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Simply real conversation, discussion, opinion and observation as in real life. It is what social media should be about in my opinion.
Dr Pen
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •I have had the same experience. I had 20k followers on Twitter, and I have, what, maybe 6k here. But I get five times the engagement here, and a fifth of the drive-by ass-clowns.
OTOH, tho, several of my Black friends tell me it's very much worse for them here.
I do not know what to make of that. I believe my friends, but for whatever reason, I hardly ever see it, myself.
Mastodon Migration
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Well said Randahl. Feel like this is due to the platform's roots as a safe space for marginalized people. While it has evolved from there, it has a foundation of inclusivity and kindness which continues to be spread through a loose set of community standards. When folks show up with negativity and bad attitudes they generally receive a cold reception, so it doesn't spread.
Whatever the reasons. It is mostly a nice place, and that is very special, particularly now.
Pat
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •i can send you a thread just for old times sake:
you absolute gentlemant! I will always be polite and aim to return your kindness even if we are at deisagreement. So sleep with one eye open since we know your fediverse handle....and you never see praises coming...😉
Fardels Bear
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •@altim That is true, but more importantly, being impolite gets you blocked and threatening violence gets you reported and as a repeat offender, if your moderator doesn't moderate you, your instance gets defederated.
Just a reminder that truth.social is based on Mastodon. It should be a normal fediverse instance on the technical level* that basically everyone defederated from.
*they edited a lot of stuff so I'm not entirely sure
Vive
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Toni Aittoniemi
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •There’s plenty of pro-Russia and pro-Christofascist bots here as well, actually.
But the voluntary & distributed nature of the admins here results in orders of magnitude better filtering than on the commercial platforms doing bootlicking for their dollars.
Randahl Fink
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