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.

@josemanuel it's also the platform because unlike on twitter here i can call you a nigger piece of faggot kike shit and your best course of action would be to ignore me, you can't report me, and blocking me would be a public L because most instances have blockbots that display when you get blocked by someone
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.

@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.