I have to be honest: I have received more abuse here than I ever did on Twitter, and it's getting increasingly common, which goes to prove what I said a few years ago: it's not the platform, it's the people.
the less jannies you have on the platform, the more you can call people niggerfaggots without consequences
@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.
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.
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 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.
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.
