[lifthrasiir]

> The wonderful thing about the Fediverse is that depending on the node you connect to, or the people you choose to federate with (in the event that you have your own instance) that your experience will be vastly different.

The same argument works with Twitter, and I genuinely believed so a decade ago (Twitter has been the only social network I still continuously use). I don't buy it at all after the decade-long experience. Your favorite followers will fight to each other no matter you've carefully chosen them. No amount of filter solves your timeline being messed.

All social networks do not work, federated or not. I'm going back to the good ol' IRC or whatever it follows.

[Barrin92]

Moderation alleviates those issues and the difference between Mastodon instances and Twitter is that the former can moderate content according to local community standards.

It's wrong to think of Mastodon as a 'social network', it's literally what the name suggests a federation of 'micro nations' with their own rules, more like subreddits than Twitter.

[lifthrasiir]

If your instance is large enough or your instance is small but peering to other instances, there would be enough interactions that will bother you eventually. Otherwise there is no point using them at all, a small IRC or Matrix or Slack or Discord server would work better.

[FalconSensei]

> If your instance is large enough or your instance is small but peering to other instances, there would be enough interactions that will bother you eventually.

I had this problem. And unless you are the moderator/host, there's nothing to do. I was having problems with some other instances, but as a user there was nothing I could do. I thought Mastodon would do a better job on allowing me to block or limit my viewers based on their instance, but no luck.

So I went back to Twitter. If I can't do anything about instances I don't like, better use Twitter and get rid of that extra layer of complexity.