Mastometa question, comparison to birdsite
Do we have a problem with Mastodon celebrities like Twitter did?
I am always worried about falling into twitters pitfalls and to some degree I think it's unavoidable but that's why I want a culture of friendliness when possible here and that's gotten really hard lately I feel like so this feels like an important question to ask
Mastometa conclusion
thanks for replying to this everyone
i think i'm feeling a lot better about this, as the tools that foster a toxic celebrity environment are a lot more neutered here :ok_hand:
Mastometa conclusion
@Rosemary this is not really a particular response to any one person, but rather that i'm kinda just worrying in general about this, since celebrities tend to have a lot more cultural power around how this stuff develops, hence my worry about celebrities
Mastometa conclusion
@Rosemary the main thing off the top of my head is celebrities developed a culture of quote tweets to push visibility into responses with toxic folks
there's not a good mechanism for doing that here, and on top of that the general culture of mastodon tries to engage in actual arguments more politely
there's a slight problem with how discourse works in general but people aren't rude to other folks when they're tossing their views up like that and that's my main worry point