Post APAXg6aKHT4bb6jpho by trevor@infosec.exchange
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 (DIR) Post #APAXg6aKHT4bb6jpho by trevor@infosec.exchange
       2022-10-29T16:20:11Z
       
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       Something that I’ve noticed more and more since migrating from Twitter is that I don’t get angry when I open the replies to a toot. This is in contrast to the bird site in that opening the replies to any given tweet had a 75% chance of containing one of the following: hate speech, people intentionally mischaracterizing the original tweet, outrage porn, intentionally inflammatory comments, misinformation, or head in sand viewpoints.This morning I opened Twitter and clicked on a tweet with a business insider article that said “Use of the N-word has gone up almost 500% under musk” and one of the replies was “well I haven’t seen any”. Resisting the urge to respond “well if you, who follows 12 accounts on Twitter, haven’t seen any then it must not exist!” I opened mastodon and was instantly greeted by positive, insightful, thoughtful, and relevant posts to me. Also the conversation here, probably because of who I follow on Mastodon, is significantly less political and more focused toward my interests. This is undoubtedly because there is no algorithm at play here and it is very much a better experience.Happy to have found some great people and hope that as more people I enjoy seeing posts from migrate I will be able to stop using the bird site entirely and then quickly forget about it and what is on it.
       
 (DIR) Post #APAXg71ycfBuyrfunw by jerry@infosec.exchange
       2022-10-29T16:58:19Z
       
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       @trevor mastodon/the fediverse doesn’t depend on pitting people against each other or creating contrived drama/controversy to make money. So I like to think we see people as they are here. Not as they’re driven to be. It’s nice. Good for the blood pressure.