The thing I particularly like with Mastodon is that I can walk away for a day or two, and not feel any urge to doomscroll - it's very peaceful.
I check back on Twitter now and then but it feel strange. A lot of familiar people have moved away or their posts simply don't turn up any more. And something with Twitter is a bit odd - at least three times now I've found I'm 'following' people I don't remember following. And they're posting anti-Green or anti-vax content I'd never choose to read. Maybe my memory's worse than I thought, or maybe Elmo's Twitter is flinging fake follows around to amp up activity. Unthinkable last October - horribly plausible now. Regards, Kate On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 06:00:04PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote: > On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 17:11 +1100, Karl Auer wrote: > > Heartily recommended if you are interested in generally civilised > > social discourse. > > Actually it's probably also pretty good if you like hanging out with > neo-Nazis, homophobes, transphobes, conspiracy theorists, Trumpists and > assorted other right-wing nutjobs. And worse. > > The thing is that in Mastodon you can effectively and with immediate > effect control whom you allow to speak to *you*; others control whether > or not you can speak to *them*. These tools are directly in *your* > hands, you don't have to ask someone else to do it for you. > > Server admins also block communications from people and servers that do > not meet their policies, and these policies are public information on > every server. There is a very widespread "covenant" between Mastodon > admins that generally blocks all of the above, and a simple mechanism > for anyone to report it if they see it. If for some reason you don't > like what your server's admins are doing, you can easily change > servers. Or have different personas on different servers (though if you > are one of the above, all your personas are regarded as non grata by > most admins). > > So if you like chatting with people like the above, just find a server > with a policy that allows whatever variety of unhinged, perverse or > hateful discourse you want to engage in and go for it. You will swiftly > find yourself isolated in a puddle of like-minded people whose voices > are heard only by each other, while the civilised world continues > without hearing any of it. > > Regards, K. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Karl Auer ([email protected]) > http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
