@thomasfuchs I'm not trying to call you that. I can't as I cannot prove or disprove your personal experience.
At best I can counter my personal experiences where I saw such assholes on multiple platforms and probably was one. Yet this would not be much useful as this would be anecdote-to-anecdote combat, which is not very constructive.
Still, I'm sorry If what I wrote was accusatory, this wasn't my intention.
This is specifically a Mastodon problem, I don’t see this on other platforms that often
@thomasfuchs
I'm pretty sure that assholes are everywhere.
@dzwiedziu I have been on social media for 20 years+ and Mastodon is by far the worst place for this.
For example, your reply essentially calls me a liar.
@thomasfuchs I'm not trying to call you that. I can't as I cannot prove or disprove your personal experience.
At best I can counter my personal experiences where I saw such assholes on multiple platforms and probably was one. Yet this would not be much useful as this would be anecdote-to-anecdote combat, which is not very constructive.
Still, I'm sorry If what I wrote was accusatory, this wasn't my intention.
@dzwiedziu thank you!
fwiw what I’m mentioning is a shared experience of many uhm, “terminally online” people like me who post a lot.
I think Mastodon as a whole is often a bit too self-celebratory as “the alternative to corporate social media” and doesn’t work enough on fixing the issues a less evenly moderated space brings with it.
Good and bad sides to it.
@thomasfuchs
Yes, Mastodon is a technology and those can't fix a vast majority of societal problems.
See the case of Black Mastodon for example.
@thomasfuchs “Hey, I was around when this thing was new”
@thomasfuchs also the experience when you talk about self hosting
@thomasfuchs jesus christ what miserable fuckers.
@europlus astounding how some people use their precious little time
@thomasfuchs I like when you share old tech <3
