I honestly feel so whiny on here because it's the only place I consistently feel "safe" talking about really bad days. And I just want hugs and chocolate and good music and puppy pics. What we need is a hut for people having a bad day where we can all support each other.
@yaelwrites I think one measure of a good social network is a place where a person feels they can most be themselves.
@kyle do you mean like a platform? i think what makes mastodon feel nicer to me vs. twitter isn't so much the platform as much as the fact that there are far fewer people using it, so there's limited amplification and it's harder for people who hate me to find me
@yaelwrites I think because the incentives on this platform are somewhat different (at least so far) there's at least a potential for things to be better.
My personal goal is to empower users with more moderation-like powers to control their own feed because I'm not convinced centralized moderation is scalable or even necessarily ethical to impose on administrators. It's not implemented yet, but the vision itself is here: https://source.puri.sm/liberty/host/smilodon/-/issues/6
@kyle Ever since Kevin died I've wondered if I have written people off too quickly for being shitty, and kind of regretting times when I did. Like I wish I would've blocked less, though I see why I did block. So it's complicated.
@yaelwrites I figure each person has their own limits and philosophy for what they want in their feed, and while federation means you can better match a moderator to your style, it's still going to be less perfect than if you (and perhaps your peers) had more direct control over curating your feed.
I tend to give people operating in good faith the benefit of the doubt (people have bad days etc), but I'm more likely to block folks obviously operating in bad faith.
