• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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      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.

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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.

  • MeatAndSarcasmGuy@lemmy.world
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    I moved over to Bluesky basically the minute I could get an invite, because I could see the writing on the wall for Twitter; and there is SOME toxicity for sure, but you control how much.

    Bluesky has a completely chronological feed composed singularly of accounts you follow. If you don’t follow shit-stirrers, you will not see any shit.

    Having said that, they can still show up in the “comments” of skeets you’ll see, but the block system is so effective, that they are not usually showing up anyways.

    To me, that is the difference between Bluesky’s moderation and other websites. Bluesky has very little official moderation, but has extremely powerful blocking tools (their blocks server connections between subskeet, there are curated block lists, atomic blocking, etc). If you subscribe to trusted and vetted block lists, you will probably never see a chud on Bluesky in your life. You do need to verify the trustworthiness of the list in advance, though…

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    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.

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    Two thoughts come to mind:

    1. 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

    1. Did you just now discover that most people are shitty? I always assumed most people figured that out at 13 or 14.
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      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

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    I had the same experience. I rarely see any toxic shit on Mastodon compared to what I kept seeing on BlueSky, even after using custom feeds.

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      I guess it depends on what “toxic” means to everybody. I certainly saw a ton of self-centered hostility towards people who saw the platform differently when I was using Masto more. This place is pretty chill and the one bit of Fedi I still use.

      My experience on BS was generally fine so far. Some people really block-happy, which I’m fine with, and during the last migration some of the trolls came over to troll and found themselves summarily banlisted almost universally. I don’t expect them to last super long in there.

      But as always with social media, experiences are more variable than anybody intuitively thinks.

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    When I looked at bsky it seemed to be about 60% pointing out stupid shit that Trumpists have recently said and done, and 30% self-congratulatory talk about how popular bluesky is this week.

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      Yes and lots of quips in meme text format. I didn’t really enjoy it, but it was better than what has become of Twitter.

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      30% self-congratulatory talk about how popular bluesky is this week.

      TBF, Mastodon was the same when I joined. I just muted all mention of “mastodon” + variations, Bob’s your uncle. Navel gazing meta discourse is the least exciting updates on any platform.

      It is still funny to visit random egg profiles on there and see they only tooted once, two years ago, saying “so this is mastodon, wonder how this works” and then never again.

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          Oh, still is.

          “Lemmy is terrible!”

          “Have you tried kbin?”

          “kbin isn’t developed, try mbin”

          “I tried mbin, but piefed is better”

          “I only use the comments section of federated Wordpress blogs, by email”

          “Zomg you guys, somebody launched qbin”

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    A quick scroll of his account on Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/urlyman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy ) makes it pretty clear why his Discover sucks. The algorithm on Bluesky sorta works like a mirror, you get out what you put in. My feed is all art posts and wholesome memes because I follow artists, creators, and comic pages, so it sounds like he’s trained his algorithm to be full of political complaining and toxic people like him. He should probably look into the Mute Words feature and start blocking stuff he thinks is toxic!

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      Reminds me of those conservative men who complained on xitter or insta that TikTok is sexualizing girls. They showed their TikTok feed and it is full of young girls dancing in cheerleader outfits. These people don’t understand how the feed works and they were basically outing themselves.

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      There has also been an influx of toxic people whose only joy is getting a reaction out of others that are joining because the people they’d normally target on X are leaving. I’ve seen them trying to get the same type of engagement they used to get and also a lot of other people calling them out as “Hey, this person is an ass, you can block them/add them to the MAGA Trolls list”. That could seem like a flood of toxicity to some.

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        I noticed that for the first time yesterday.

        Today, I don’t see them. I guess maybe moderation and/or blocking is working.

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        I tested it with “cat” and it blocks me from seeing things I’ve reposted with the word “cat” in it, so yeah it might! :)

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      Also they only follow a single person??

      Like how do they expect their feed to be customised and filled with stuff they enjoy, when all they do is follow 1 person and make political posts and posts such as “bluesky sucks, mastodon is best”.

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    Seen very little of it on either Bluesky or Mastodon to be honest. Maybe it’s the type of searches or activities followed.

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    Also, it’s so toxic yet he’s using the account still and bridged his fediverse account. If I encountered next level toxicity that’s not what I’d be doing

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    This person is a liar and just wants the Mastodon pat on the back. For some reason people on the fediverse can’t just enjoy their platforms and work to make them better. They have to lie about Bluesky and Nostr. I’ve been on Bluesky since the beginning. I’ve seen significantly more toxic people and content on fedi than I’ve ever have on Bluesky. People are happy to be away from X, they’re trying to promote a positive and supportive culture. There’s tonnes of minorities on Bluesky

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    If you have millions of people on a social network, and you go looking for toxic shit there, you will find it.

    Well, on Mastodon, you might not because by default it doesn’t have a useful text search feature. If you’re on a server running a modified version, or something else with decent text search, you might. My self-hosted server was on a relay that briefly pulled in content from a famously toxic server. At first, I didn’t see it because I didn’t follow those accounts, but later, I added an improved search feature and tried searching for some terms of abuse. I did find a few absolutely vile posts.

    Bluesky has had a working search from early on. Turning off some of the default moderation filters and searching for terms of abuse does, in fact find people using terms of abuse.