Hey #fediverse, question for you. I recently made the mistake of going back onto #facebook to post on my neighborhood's community page to ask my neighbors to please keep their dogs on a leash so they don't keep wandering into my yard, breaking things, and scaring away the #cats that live in my yard.
It IMMEDIATELY devolved into two common sentiments: 1) If you don't want stuff to get broken, don't own stuff 2) Having cats is a moral failing and I should be euthanizing every cat that wanders into my yard.
I don't spend much time on facebook anymore, but I don't remember it being _that_ bad. So this is my question --
Is this a facebook problem, or just a sign-of-the-times / people problem? I haven't been on #friendica / #mastodon very long so I can't tell if my positive experience here is just a bubble or if people here are just more sane.
@Scott People here in the Fediverse want to have meaningful conversations. There’s no algorithm you have to battle against just to be heard. I think that makes all the difference.
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in reply to Scott • • •People here in the Fediverse want to have meaningful conversations. There’s no algorithm you have to battle against just to be heard. I think that makes all the difference.
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Interactions driven by anger usually don’t receive the reinforcement needed to become a problem.
In my experience, conversations are generally more meaningful and serious.
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