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   Dr Pen (drpen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 15:40:13 JST Dr Pen

   Slightly contentious thoughts:

   - Why is it so difficult to sign up for a Mastodon account? We really need a way to simplify this for ordinary users!!

   - If you mention Mastodon on the fedi, why do you get chased down by a fedibro telling you to [insert any issue about the real fedi] yadda yadda? Give us all a break, please.

   - Why do people think of socmed as a kind of personal branding? We need to help them get over that.

   #fediverse #mastodon #opensocialweb #socialweb #academicchatter

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 15:40:12 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @DrPen for the second question, it's because new people join, get harassed, and leave because Eugen refuses to add any useful moderation tools.

     If a user doesn't report posts, moderators don't see them. Very few users report posts and a lot of black folks keep leaving because of harassment.

     If we'd stop recommending Mastodon, maybe this wouldn't happen.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 16:02:59 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @DrPen I'm saying that others have received harassment on Mastodon and the only way to deal with such harassment is to report it to moderators, which a lot don't do.

     The Mastodon "CEO" has actively refused to add any useful moderation features, leaving certain groups of people feeling ignored and causing them to leave the platform.

     I hear akkoma is much better in this regard.

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     Dr Pen (drpen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 16:03:00 JST Dr Pen

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     • BeAware :fediverse:

     @BeAware Im not saying Ive received any behaviour I would consider bad enough to 'report'. Its not about that, its a mindset. I dont get why you think not recommending Mastodon would help, tbh its the only app to recommend to ppl who come off Twitter. I know fedibros wont like that, but there you go.