I'm not doing this so folks will pile on. This needs to be talked about. Black Twitter didn't work out here either. I believe a lot of folks moved to Bluesky and formed collectives there.
How do we fix discovery, reply guys, and welcoming all comers?
Anyway, I don't have an answer, thought maybe some smart folks might have some good ideas to share with Anil.
The biggest reason I don’t use Mastodon nearly as often as I’d like to is because, unlike other platforms, too many of the people who act like asses here are people who *follow me*. It’s really weird, because every platform has assholes or whatever, but usually it’s due to context collapse from strangers. Here, it’s usually a tiny minority that wants to scold or police over (often contrived!) objections, and it’s just… exhausting. Takes the fun out of hanging out online. Not sure how to fix it.
