@cleverdevil I’ve been trying to articulate my thoughts on Mastodon but could never put my finger on it. This tweet does that better than I could have. Thanks for sharing.

@chrislopez 👍🏻 I have a Mastodon account, but actively advocate against it because I can see the inevitable conclusion of its popularity, and it has the potential to be more harmful than Twitter.

@cleverdevil Same, it has all of the bad of reddit and Twitter.

@chrislopez how does it have the bad of reddit? Genuine question, just that as someone who’s seen, on a detailed level, what the bad of reddit is (vicious homophobia, antisemitism, naked racism, appalling misogyny) I’m wondering where you see that in Mastodon?

@dgold @cleverdevil @chrislopez So far I have seen nothing like the idiocy of Reddit or Twitter on Mastodon. Been there a year. Bad actors are blocked, moderation is fairly high. Bad admins or instances can be solved by moving to a different instance. Entire instances can be blocked by an individual. I agree with some of Sarah's points, but if @manton blocked your account you'd be completely unable to federate with anyone.

@dgold @donblanco I was referring to the multiple instance nature of it. Like Reddit has subreddits, Mastodon has instances.

@donblanco @dgold @chrislopez it definitely has many options for moderation, blocking, etc., but its based on a fundamentally decentralized model, which turns it into a game of whack-a-mole. Having a single, focused community with clear guidelines seems more workable to me. That said, I could easily be wrong!

@chrislopez @dgold @donblanco @cleverdevil ActivityPub/Mastodon are nothing like Twitter or Reddit, which are tyrannies which encourage the worst people. Every AP instance is its own state, and if you're a jackass, you or your entire instance will be blocked from other instances.

@chrislopez but there’s really no comparison. I have an account on .technology, I don’t really “follow” anyone on that instance, and my home feed is full of people from different instances, a huge number of them. When I want to, i can look at the local feed which is, yes, like a subreddit, but that’s a tiny element of the user experience.

@dgold Perhaps my comparison was misguided.