@trent@eigenmagic.net @geordie@aus.social You really don’t want to tell the tenors there’s a bone there, if you know what I mean.
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Mark Newton
@NewtonMark@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Internet geek. Pilot. Mostly nice.
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Sunshine Coast aero club is running an ice cream fly-in, 2-5pm on Sunday 4th December. #avgeek #queensland
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@aerohead@aus.social @jaystephens@mastodon.social @aqualung@mstdn.io TL;DR: I don't think this place will be any better or worse, it'll just be different. If it ends up with hundreds of millions of users, it'll be the new hellsite, with different colored decor.
@asherwolf@mastodon.social Technically that's the Italian language ("la finestra" - the window)
@jaystephens@mastodon.social @aqualung@mstdn.io If someone's an asshole they'll behave like an asshole regardless of the setting they're in.
You seem to be taking a technocratic approach here, where if we can just establish the correct rules of engagement we'll get on top of the "toxicity" and everything will be fine.
I submit that that's never been true before, and that Mastodon won't make it true now.
Mastodon is "nice" because hardly anyone uses it. Let's see what happens when it has a billion DAU.
@franksting@mastodon.cloud @Pug505GR@aus.social @stufromoz@aus.social @happysinger@mastodon.social I don't even remember what it was (I saw a screenshot) but you could easily copy and paste it to your "introduction" here :)
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@aerohead@aus.social @jaystephens@mastodon.social @aqualung@mstdn.io Mastodon developers made *assumptions* about what some of the worst things about twitter were, decided that they were quoting, algorithmic ranking and search, and did some things differently in those spaces.
The assumptions were never validated. People have strong opinions about them.
The lack of quoting matches Twitter until approximately 2017. You can embed a link to a toot instead, just like we used to do on twitter.
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@aerohead@aus.social @jaystephens@mastodon.social @aqualung@mstdn.io As I said to Jay earlier: Assholes will be assholes. They'll be assholes differently here vs twitter, but I doubt they'll be better. They'll slide right up to the limits without quite crossing them (so you can't ban them) and be assholes with impunity. That's what assholes do.
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@aerohead@aus.social @jaystephens@mastodon.social @aqualung@mstdn.io I think this is where we differ.
You're suggesting Twitter's tech choices encouraged assholery.
I don't think assholes need any encouragement; assholery is innate, and will result in roughly the same amount of awfulness regardless of tech choices.
e.g., If assholery is a vector, platforms can influence its direction but not its magnitude.
We see that already: Some of the worst noxious waste from twitter has already colonized this place, and it's fuckin yuk.
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@bgrinter@mastodon.sdf.org A bit over 3 and a half hours in the RV-6 I think. Breakfast in Sydney, lunch in Maroochydore, no need for a fuel stop. (I’m not going but it’s the thought that counts :)