@evan Yes. Even if I blocked you it ain't personal and I hope you're doing well. We're all on a journey and what a place this is turning out to be!

@evan I follow people either if I know them well or if I look at their profile and am interested in their posts. Some people I follow are: @Kaliah , @Haven_of_dreams , @elliottman98 , @Ethan_edwards , @samtupy , @maysoncabo , @cartertemm , @Evdog1245 , @stevo399 , @lexipic , @grace , @MS26 , @MutedTrampet , @BrailleScreen All these people post really cool things. I have a small number of people I follow but like seeing everything that's posted on my home feed. All these people post really cool things.

@evan Most of them, a few crazy's like everyware.

Evan Prodromou The poll doesn’t show on my NoeBB-based site, so I’ll just answer via write-in.

Yes, but… There are a lot of really great, kind, interesting, intelligent, and/or engaging people here that I’m glad to interact with.

I’ve also come across an amount of vaguely revenge-of-the-nerdish behaviour, where angry folks show up in the comments and demand basic things be hidden behind content warnings or that I follow some rule from their instance on my server I pay for, and that they’re only seeing posts from because of some choice someone on their instance made, and they often don’t take get lost for an answer.

@evan I went with "Yes, but", but it could just as easily have been "No, but". I've met some truly great people here who I consider friends. It also seems to house more than its fair share of assholes. I find myself reluctant to talk to people unless I've known them for a while. These days, if I interact, I tend to keep things clinical.

@evan the vast majority of people I've interacted with on the Fediverse have been wonderful people. I'm aware this isn't necessarily representative of the Fediverse as a whole. I feel that my instance does a pretty good job of moderation, and I am somewhat selective of who I follow.

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Yes! So many awesome earthlings on here, nerding out on the weirdest topics. My ever-curious brain is so grateful for all of you!

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I specially dislike the people who makes polls.

@evan Yes, but… no social platform isn’t without having awful humans participating.

@evan Yes.
Occasionally when a "but" gets in, so do the multiple levels of block.
Then we are back to plain "Yes".

@evan Yes, most of them are at least decent, but I've had to curate to find the ones I really like. I don't think this is very out of the norm though, so I'd say yes mostly.

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Yes, very much, but sometimes they don't like me. It's usually a misunderstanding.

@evan yes but my god some people. Yesterday I saw someone "well akshually" defend the validity of the word race in a discussion about the genocide of non-whites in Argentina. Like really dude?

@evan Yes, but not all.