@jwildeboer this sounds very American. Sad to hear our messed up ways are spreading
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What if I tell you that a German woman, with mental problems, as it seems ATM, pulls out a knife and starts to stab passengers in a bus, severely hurting 3 passengers. -
Look, I'm gonna lay this out on the line:@TechConnectify then a better example... How do you stomach your YouTube comments? I can't believe you get more grief here than there.
But to see you ripping on how terrible you think this place is implies you're comparing it to what Twitter used to be.
Threads and BlueSky won't save us. For profit companies will never be the good stewards of social media we want from them. Look at Reddit.
Just like using Linux, the freedoms of open source do have a cost in patience. But they're worth it
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Look, I'm gonna lay this out on the line:@TechConnectify I just don't understand how modern X could be any better. If some supremacist/bigot goes after you there, they'll encourage it and boost the troll. Then probably punish you for defending yourself.
But even there the old default was to block DMs from people you don't follow. I'd highly advise turning that setting on.
Maybe you just need a traditional blog with commenting disabled. And then you could set it up to propagate to your Mastodon account via a bot. Read only mode