Its crazy to me how less toxic Mastodon is versus Twitter. Like I used twitter for four years and that community was filled with toxicity, death threats, and doxxing. You come to Mastodon and it's like people explaining the platform to newbies, supporting other users, teaching people basics of privacy and security, etc.
Its just weird how much the platform varies with the attitude of its users.
@Wetrix From my (2014-2018) and my friends' (~2008-2016) experiences with Twitter, and now Mastodon, Twitter has always been much more toxic, less helpful, and overtly political. Mastodon has a fairly sizable user base and is still friendly, hopefully it stays that way.
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat true. I'm hoping it stays that way to.
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat I agree. Free speech lives here even if you don’t agree with it.
@Lordimpala Exactly. While sometimes it wouldn't hurt to have a little more platform moderation (such as trying to cut down on racism, sexism, terrorism threats, things of that nature), it is certainly the most free speech enabling platform that I've ever seen.
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat I agree with not having illegal material. It’s a slippery slope with racism or sexism. If it’s directed at a person, and it becomes harassment. Then no.
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat Is it related to size of user base? Toxicity is out there and one day will be also here.
@majso I think while there is an element that is proportional to the number or active users, when Twitter was around this size, they were still much more toxic and political. I think the privacy/security/Foss community is just comprised of people who try to be more helpful to introduce people to those fields, though I could be wrong on the reasoning.
Enjoy the rest of your day!
@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat it's like Twitter before it got to big.