Settling in here, I'm starting to get a feel for the vibe difference between this and that other place. It's not that there are no jerks here. But the scale is more manageable, and that's everything.
It's like the difference between rolling your eyes at your racist uncle at a holiday dinner and discovering you booked the same hotel that's hosting a Klan rally.
@mattblaze I'm beginning to think that the federation of instances with their own rules is a better proxy for real life.
It's not practicing balkanization of the internet, it's just allowing for each community of people to have agency over what type of content to ingest or de-federate from - much like your ignoring your racist uncle and their boomer diatribes.
OTOH, running instances and the power that comes with that has a classist barrier to entry that needs addressing.
