@gwynnion Things like politics definitely should be CW’d but day to day news? Come on now. People have been getting too soft, not to be one of those people, because they want the world to cater to them.
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Austin :prohybrid: (austin@prowrestling.space)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2023 14:55:47 JST Austin :prohybrid: -
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Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2023 14:55:48 JST Nowhere Girl Mastodon culture of old seems to have encouraged trolls, sea lions, and reply guys by advocating people go private or otherwise just tolerate them being assholes, driving a lot of conversation underground or behind server blocks for the sake of community level "peace and quiet."
Whereas on Twitter, at least before the Great Ensuckening, they would have been dragged to kingdom come and even eventually banned for messing with certain people.
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Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2023 14:55:48 JST Nowhere Girl So you know, you win some, you lose some. Que sera, sera.
I generally have far better engagement experiences here on Mastodon than I did on Twitter, but the ratio of reply guys and other trolls is higher, too.
But because I learned from Twitter, I am more than prepared to block a user or an entire instance on sight or to tell somebody to STFU because they're a fucking moron.
I don't do nice with assholes.
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Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2023 14:55:48 JST Nowhere Girl And honestly, I'm still resentful of certain people who want you to put everything behind a CW, even the daily news and politics, just so their personal calm is never disrupted.
And like, just block me then? If you want to live in a fantasy world where nothing is wrong. Because shit sucks, guys.
Like, I understand if your mental health is at stake. Do what you gotta do. But this is how I cope to some extent, personally. Because for real, shit sucks.
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Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2023 14:55:49 JST Nowhere Girl Like, I saw a guy on here the other day who unironically asserted a right to harass people who post publicly on Mastodon and who was utterly, implacably opposed to the idea of controlling who can reply to your posts because it would deny him his "free speech" right to be an asshole to you.
And like, that guy. That guy right there. The world is full of those guys whether they're on Twitter or not.
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Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2023 14:55:50 JST Nowhere Girl People who never really used Twitter don't understand what a thick skin some of us developed because of it.
But they also tend to think they're inherently superior for not having used Twitter when in many cases, they're just as bad as your average bottom of the barrel Twitter reply guy troll weirdo.
They've just never faced any serious pushback for it, the way they would if they had been on Twitter. So they never learned to shut the fuck up.
And that's been a major irony in using Mastodon.
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