So I just saw a professor of general chemistry post a student's exam (handwriting, math, and all) on Twitter to mock it as a bad exam and I think it's a prime example of a bad professor. If someone posted something like that here on mastodon, I imagine they'd have a hard time finding a STEM instance that would want them... #TwitterMigration
@Britt Do you think the STEM instances have higher ethics than we've seen on Twitter? I've been on Mastodon for years, but the STEM instances are newer to me, so I don't know.
@meganlynch I am still very new, but so far I have seen a lot of warm vibes in the qoto server. I would guess all of the community moderation in play on most instances makes people behave a bit better here than on twitter.
@Britt @meganlynch People are fooling themselves that specific communication mechanisms make people better.
This is not what happens.
There is good moderation and consciousness by the users, or at least that was the case before a huge amount of users from Twitter came here.
This huge flow of people will at least temporarily disrupt the moderation mechanisms.
Probably it will change the culture and rules of Mastodon, I hope for the better.
Mastodon, has until now been a bit of a closed and obscure place; not a showroom to talk about yourself but rather a dark alley where to go with a couple of friends and do cool stuff you wouldn't advertise to most people.
Things are going to change with this large influx of users, what will happen is difficult to forecast.
