The main trick of any social media is to carefully curate your feed. The algorithmic content almost always sucks, but Twitter had a mode where you only view the tweets from people you follow, in chronological order -- so you have the ability to control what you see. That took care of most of the negativity.
Mastodon is like Twitter, but then there are multiple servers, each controlled by a different person/group, and the messages get exchanged between them. There are some servers that are "radical free speech zones" (so: overrun by fascists) and those get blocked so that those messages do not get exchanged with the other servers. I now run my own server, so I get to control what happens there. So far, my experience has been pretty good.
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Date: 2022-11-16 03:33 pm (UTC)Mastodon is like Twitter, but then there are multiple servers, each controlled by a different person/group, and the messages get exchanged between them. There are some servers that are "radical free speech zones" (so: overrun by fascists) and those get blocked so that those messages do not get exchanged with the other servers.
I now run my own server, so I get to control what happens there. So far, my experience has been pretty good.