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I have seen an uptick in posts saying “block this maga/Nazi/etc” but I haven’t personally directly seen any. I use the Following feed so I only see posts from the people I’ve specifically asked to.
Critical mass of users on social media platforms.
Back on Usenet decades ago they called it the “Eternal September”.
It used to be that every September, fresh University students would gain access to Usenet for the first time, and there would be a rough adjustment period where they don’t yet know the ropes, the lingo, the etiquette, the unspoken rules, and the expectant decorum, etc. Then one year, home internet service providers made Usenet accessible to ANYONE who subscribed… And from that day forward, it was like September every day, all year round.
Now the general riffraff are flocking to bsky because even THEY see that Twitter is sinking. This surge of new users have brought all their bad habits with them. Bsky must adapt or it too will fall.
All I saw were furries and dicks, and no way to filter them other than blocking all 18+ posts. And apparently everyone and their mother is a findom expert there, or just abusive in nature. Luckily I still don’t understand those type of self centered narcissistic social media platforms and what to do on them.
I…haven’t seen a single one of those. Any of it.
There is no real safe place. You need a platform that allows you to moderate it down to a place you can live with.
Sounds like just repeating an inherent truth to me? You can find toxicity anywhere on the internet that is not tightly regulated by a BDFL. That said, I would not adscribe any undue weight to this kind of statement. It’s like saying sky is blue. Intentions don’t matter, mass of users vs limited work of volunteer admins does.
Every platform has its own Eternal September
For many platforms it’s even just the original user base that’s toxic
It’s like saying sky is blue.
lol, didn’t even notice it when I wrote it. Good catch!
No because Bluesky has block lists so all that stuff is so easily filtered. It’s honestly really lovely.
Haven’t seen a single bit of toxic stuff yet, my feed is all cute art and photography.
I read that at first as “cute art and pornography”
There’s definitely some of that in there too haha
Why the heck isn’t he hosting his own Mastodon instance?
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The hell is masto? Mastocytosis? Mastopexy?
Yet another case in point of how shitty mastodon’s name is. Even its abbreviations are trash. The best time to change its name was before it started. The second best time is NOW. And the longer they go without fixing this, the worse it will be. As long as mastodon never rebrands, it is doomed to fall behind scummy oligarch controlled trash like threads.
Mastodon, the Fediverse replacement for Twitter, like how Lemmy is the Fediverse replacement for Reddit.
Does the post strike anyone else as “off”?
Like why is this person giving a full elevator pitch of who they are before they drop the bomb of “bluesky is toxic”?
because bluesky has had a collective struggle session recently with the twitter posters migrating over and realising they’re not actually being welcomed in open arms, usually when they out themselves with shit like genocide denial and transphobia.
You only need to look at the many BlueSky posts here to see that many people view BlueSky as an attack on federation. It’s only natural to see people on Mastodon shitting on BlueSky for taking what they see as their success away from them.
I think he is saying nobody is sending him threats and calling him slurs because he isn’t a minority, but still acknowledges the problem of others.
Yes. It enforces a bubble by its very nature. There is no main feed, by default you see people you follow and posts they interact with. I don’t have a problem with that. I wouldn’t go into a pub with racists, and xenophobes, so I shouldn’t have to do it online.
Anyway, first thing I did was sign up for a couple of blocks lists, and what saw was awful people.
Also, if you look a the moderation settings, there is a lot of objectional content that is or can be hidden basic of topic flags. This is content that on any sane networks should be banned and the users suspended. But of Bluesky its just hidden from view.
It’s basically a microcosm of the Internet. It’s not the Good Place for sure, and anyone who thinks that is deluded.
just because the middle aged white guy with terrible opinions isn’t catered to on platforms where the first users were ones fed up with middle aged white guys with terrible opinions, doesn’t mean there’s a problem, if anything it indicates federated social media is resistant to bullshit
Every social media is collective of thousands of social bubbles.
While I advocating for federated SNS, I personally rarely encounter any toxicity on internet except when I interact with westerner (especially Americans). I carefully choose who I follow and interact, and the algorithm are trained with my interaction to put content that not toxic and relevant to me.
On fediverse alone, I have multiple account that delivers entirely different social experience. My English mastodon.social account that just slightly touch Western politics are thousands times toxic. Even my personal regional political discourse feed on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook are not as toxic as Western politics on fediverse.
Two thoughts come to mind:
- If it’s there and you aren’t having it shoved down your throat, then that’s still a VAST improvement over Twitter, which has gone from shitty social media to blatant hate indoctrination platform.
and
- Did you just now discover that most people are shitty? I always assumed most people figured that out at 13 or 14.
Did you just now discover that most people are shitty? I always assumed most people figured that out at 13 or 14.
Still haven’t, screw misanthropy
