As I understand it, one of the major issues with moving to e.g. Mastodon is that the Fediverse doesn’t implement blocking in a way that you’d expect, at all. It’s effectively impossible to block someone the way we’re used to blocking in places like Twitter, Instagram.
I have also heard a lot of stories from Black folks about anti-Black sentiment on Mastodon.
Knowing him, he’ll forget to remove the first redirect
Uh I have an old 3GS if someone wants to toss me 10k for it
The author dedicates gobs of prose to illustrate their weak theories while on the other hand mocking the legitimate concerns people have, implying they are childish. And in reality most of the things people are concerned about will absolutely, certainly happen.
We don’t need billions of users here; just a healthy community.
Yeah, it’s very sad.
The core of the issue is that it’s too easy for us privileged folks to suggest things like - and I’m not trying to pick on you at all here - that vulnerable people stay in any sort of “self-enforced walled garden” rather than robust moderation tools and the human resources to use them to their full potential.