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@ryanschultz@mastodon.social I think the "quote tweet" was also responsible for so much harm. You can just talk about someone instead of talk to them. But sadly, there will always be trolls. I just hope their effect will me minimized here. But we'll see what will happen

@ryanschultz@mastodon.social I think by default, the trolls have less effect here than they do there. Twitter is optimized for engagement and the most controversial "hot takes" achieve a status above everything else. These popular posts overshadow all other reasonable voices algorithmically. On Mastodon, it's as if all voices are on equal footing. So the trolls would not have the same reach and the same effect

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Toxic positivity is a thing. I might be wrong but there's a difference between speaking against something that affected you, and other vague negative rants about politics. It's great to discuss politics of course. But hundreds of posts about how Trump is bad, no matter how true, are counter productive. It's especially annoying to those who do not live in the US. Twitter feeds on negativity so there is bound to be an overcorrection from those tired of it, but in time we'll have a balance