Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Why are people so vindictive and personal, and why do they double down so enthusiastically about taking it to this personal place where this person involved is being bad on purpose and needs to be attacked for being horrible, instead of just being a normal person with a variety of normal human failings as we all have?
First time on the internet? This happens everywhere, more so when you’re anonymous or pseudonymous, but whenever you’re behind a screen and everyone on the other side is just a username being controlled by an idiot or a troll.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Agreed. Reddit and Twitter were bad for bullying, doxxing, or just general nastiness, I’m not saying that it doesn’t happen on Mastodon, or the Fediverse in general, but it’s nothing like as bad.
Demdaru@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Until someone does something not FOSS’y or anti-linux.
Kirk@startrek.website 1 week ago
If Mastodon/Fedi was at the scale those platforms are we would see more harassment, absolutely. It remains to be proven but I think federation enables a lot more eyes on content which implies harassing material can be removed more quickly.
Federation/decentralization solves a lot of problems over centralized social media, but ultimatley you can’t engineer human nature.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 1 week ago
If you build it, they will come