Elon Musk Went on a Firing Frenzy at Twitter. Now He's Paying for It: Robert Reich

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5. I'm really enjoying Mastodon!

Once you get over the initial hurdle of signup confusion, it's got a lot more flexibility than Twitter. You can edit, you can specify how public your posts are, you can include content warnings for text. You have to opt-in to a lot more content by default rather than it all being one giant continuous thing of everyone in the same "room".

And moderation is local based on your own server. It's possible for server mods to block and moderate other users on other servers. So if there's a group of pestering right wingers on maga.redwave.social (not a real server) my server can ban individuals on that server from seeing or replying to anything on ours, or ban the entire server en-masse. Just because someone might get banned from one server doesn't mean they are banned from other content on Mastodon.

It seems like it'd be self-regulating - the more a group breaks the rules and gets shut out of servers, the less likely they are to appear in people's federated (global) feed and see other posts they want to argue with.