@kaia They usually block me first. It's usually the kind of people who, when faced with polite disagreement, reply with an insult, then block and subtoot.

In the rare cases when they don't block me, I usually mute them (with or without mentions, depending on how annoying they are).

@josemanuel @kaia and that constitutes abuse from your point of view

@condret For lack of a better word. No, they didn't touch my peepee, no.

What do you call it? Mild disagreement? Ok, let's use that from now on.

All I want from social media is to have interesting conversations and make friends. Maybe I'm bad at it.

@kaia

@lina @josemanuel another case of guy can't imagine being outside his echochamber and unable to cope with the fact that you are not deleted from website

@FrailLeaf @josemanuel yea his admin is surprisingly fair for someone who cries while masturbating and fists women, he didn't defederate eientei or suspend my account on qoto's end despite blocking me on his own account

@lina @josemanuel funny admin

@FrailLeaf @josemanuel the hilarious part is: he's more fair than the alleged champion of free speech daniel stevens of ontario, canada

@lina @josemanuel its the clout disease, get excessively vocal about your "cause" only to try to gain following to make money

@FrailLeaf @josemanuel yea, but you have to admit, with how fake the most vocal poast users are, it's only fitting the admin is the biggest grifter and fake faggot on the instance

@lina @josemanuel what's more pathetic is his users willfully ignoring how much of a grifter he is. They're literally his slaves

@FrailLeaf @josemanuel yeah i had numerous times they'd be like "durrr i dont wanna shit in my house" like retard poast isn't your house, you can be kicked out for posting :danielstevens: or anything like that
it'd be your house if you were hosting it

@lina When I say the platform, I don't mean the moderation policy. Depending on the instance you're in, you may or may not say that.

What I mean by “the platform” is the platform's goals. When people moved from Twitter in 2022, they came here saying how awful it was that _the platform_ gave prominence and visibility to certain accounts because confrontation was good for it.

I called that bullshit because 1) if something made me angry or depressed, I wouldn't be interacting with it, and that lack of interaction is bad for business. And 2) most platforms allow one to curate their experience, Twitter included. If you see stuff that makes you angry and you feel the need to respond and escalate, that's on you.

@josemanuel i really mean the entire network as a whole, because unless your admin is rapidfire blocking every new instance that breaks your rules, you WILL see someone say nigger and you WILL have someone try to troll you or try to get a rise out of you some other way, there's no escaping it without unironically enforcing whitelist federation or following ever-so-updating blocklists that honestly defeat the purpose of federation
as for the goals, well, i don't think fedi has any goals here, it's just a crazy network full of crazies, it's not a corporate project to make money, as far as i'm aware

@lina
> as for the goals, well, i don't think fedi has any goals here, it's just a crazy network full of crazies

That's my point: there's no algorithm psyopping them to be dickheads. They just are.

@josemanuel depends on what kind of dickhead
the ones on twitter are just autonomous drones that think their life means something when they go out and harass anyone who goes against the widely accepted agenda
people here just do it for lulz and as a form of gatekeeping, if you can handle it gracefully, you'll make friends even

@lina I can handle it just fine. It's them who block me.

@josemanuel a block is basically a declaration of submission, so don't bother with em

@lina I wasn't really bothered. The point of my OP was to counter the narrative that the Fediverse was a better platform _just because_. (Remember the “Twitter without the nazis” slogan?) No, a platform is as good as the people who use it, and people on Fedi are not exactly the cream of the crop, me included.

@josemanuel let's be honest any platform like fedi would be better than twitter or an equivalent corporate owned platform solely because it's not corporate owned and if you can't find a good instance, you can host your own
but i always found it hilarious that the twitter refugees are like "MASTODON IS BETTER CUZ THERES NO NAZIS" and then they cope with "ACKSHUALLY THE NAZIS FOLLOWED US HERE FROM TWITTER!!" like my brother in Christ you literally came to said nazis because most of them were banned from twitter and are unhappy with how forbidding it is to them

@lina Exactly.

you can mute, which is a pseudoblock and isnt detectable

@mischievoustomato @josemanuel yea you can, but i try not to let people know about that it's funny when people demonstratively block you

@lina @josemanuel having a blockbot is already such a big L that blocking someone is hardly even noteworthy

@ic3l9 @josemanuel sounds like a cope, if you want to block someone and not have it be known, mute instead

@lina if anything is a cope then the belief that blocking someone is "shameful"

i wouldn't give a fuck if people knew i block them, you'd have to be very delusional to think people are weak for not wanting to endure the digital equivalent of sitting in a room with a monkey throwing diarrhea at your face. if i have the option to actually really improve my online experience at the click of a button i'd be retarded if i didn't. i would not talk to jehova's witnesses for hours either.

@ic3l9 >he lacks self control to do it without appearing like a wuss
yep, issa cope