Hello, Mastodonians. I'm wondering: do you have a strategy for keeping up a high level of interaction with people on the web while keeping things pleasant and positive? Are there things/places you avoid or emphasize? What do you do to put your voice out there, but try to reduce negative and ultimately pointless arguments and interactions?
Hi Andrew, I guess that there is no real answer to your questions. People discuss. I have the feeling that people on Mastodon are quite #positivethinking, particularly compared to #twitter. However, there are discussions which are more confronting and less pleasant such as #forkoff
Hi, @GerryT! I get that, and I understand. Mastodon is a good place, although I haven't quite found my community here yet. But I find that things devolve super-quickly in the broader 'net. I wonder how folks deal?
@GerryT My thinking isn't really fully formed about what I'm asking, or what I'm looking for. I just want to be less grumpy, but still online :)
@awhite Haha, "less-grumpy-but-still-online" made my day. I don't know whether it is a trend or permanent, but the way how people interact on #socialmedia lately is filled with hatred and threats. Very weird. Here over in Europe, someone just writes that there is an issue with #socialpolicy and some others immediately yell #refugees . Quite nasty.
@GerryT WOW! I don't think I'm doing that with my daughter in a trailer behind me. Or, heck, at all.
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@awhite If someone gets rude at a discussion like that (whose fault is it if a cyclist gets doored), then there really is the only option to stop discussion.
By the way, a good cyclist cannot get doored ;-) Just see:
https://mastodon.social/@atomjack604/100098077870091644