Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

Thinking about it, perhaps the difficulty to get on #Mastodon — small, though much harder than other social media — is sometimes a feature. I think that most #trolls aren't willing to put in a lot of effort, perhaps one of the reasons there's so, so much less spam in the "comments" here.

#fediverse

Most #socialmedia is a bad way to infer generalizations. Social media tends to show you what you want to see & things similar to what you've seen, which can lead to an echo chamber effect, I think.
When it seems to me that something 'happens a lot' and is controversial I like to check online for statistics.

The #Fediverse has much less "algorithm" but nonetheless you can still get yourself in an echo chamber if you choose the wrong server (e.g. with prejudiced bans on other servers).