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by xmodem 534 days ago
Switching to mastodon has been such a breath of fresh air. No algo-driven feed manipulating me to constantly check in means that I have a much healthier relationship with it. If I'm, say, on the metro I can use it to kill time for 5 minutes... and then put it down, and I don't feel compelled to pick it up.
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bArray 534 days ago
Be careful what air you breath in: "Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material" [1] [2]. A lot of this was previously limited by X until a mass exodus to platforms such as Mastodon and BlueSky.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/24/twitter-r...

[2] https://archive.is/SNYcK#selection-423.0-423.53

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GaryNumanVevo 534 days ago
Actually this is a big reason why a lot of instance owners block replication of any posts from Japanese instances
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Kiro 534 days ago
Every time I see a post from Mastodon it's always some hate and rage driven rant. Like "I can finally say what I want so f* this and that". Anecdotal of course but it doesn't really come off as less toxic.
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xmodem 534 days ago
What you can do, is curate who you follow / block so that you mostly don't see that. TBF you could do the same thing on X/Twitter to an extent but the platform has an incentive to circumvent your preferences.
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