Post #1949862

2026-04-30 04:45 UTC

this is a very good post about why i don&#39;t really use fedi anymore: the software provides no recourse for posts one doesn&#39;t like on federated timelines, besides harassment. and oh boy have i seen the harassment. I&#39;ve seen the things people have done based on third hand accusations. i have seen the ruined lives. any community even slightly adjacent to fedi has to deal with the persistent threat of harassment from fedi. chaos, e.g. has a huge problem with this. for example, some project changes a llm policy to reflect the reality that llms have some useful applications while also enabling large amounts of antisocial behaviour that much be managed. two things true at once. they should budget for death threats and personal harassment from fedi. this isn&#39;t right, but it&#39;s what happens because people can&#39;t choose the things they see on the bad website. thus they do the thing they habitually do on fedi, but this time outside fedi: suppress the things they don&#39;t like through harassment. https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/

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@recursive@hachyderm.io 2026-04-30 05:07

@leftpaddotpy@hachyderm.io ugh yeah And as much as I have a lot of issues with LLMs, the usual responses on fedi are based heavily in people’s personal trauma with other things in life and/or purity culture

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@leftpaddotpy@hachyderm.io 2026-04-30 05:24

@mia@void.rehab at least two affordances: algorithmic tl doesn't show you things that make you sigh in exasperation, because there is labeling. it helps a little that replies to retweets are mentions to the retweeter, so they can tell people to get the fuck out of their menchies. I'm also wondering about some mechanics of how replies work, especially involving blocked people. might be the same as latest timeline in 2022 Twitter for all i know though. i also think that mastodon has some truly stupid views that create many such problems. federated timeline for example, where people see irrelevant posts and get mad. i think the last piece is, you know there are people on bsky or whatever who are fucking Nazis and the platform does nothing about it and you deal with it. you don't try to harass them off or something because you can 1. block them lol and 2. don't have any dumb features like federated timeline that show you their posts. https://v.cx/2025/04/mastodon-exit-interview

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@mra@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-30 07:32

@leftpaddotpy@hachyderm.io out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say that people can't choose the things that they see? i'm not sure what the "normal" way to use fedi is, but i only really look at my home feed, so i only see stuff from people i follow. i mostly follow personal friends, and sometimes they boost other interesting people into my feed who i decide to follow. if i consistently dislike someone's posts, i just unfollow them.

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