I see bot accounts from username cm0002 on many different instances. At least on the communities I see/moderate, the content is legit, so this is not a complaint, just curiosity.
I see bot accounts from username cm0002 on many different instances. At least on the communities I see/moderate, the content is legit, so this is not a complaint, just curiosity.
Holy crap, I am sorry you have to deal with this.
The more I hear stories like these, the less I believe that social media can ever be a net good to society.
I want to believe that the Fediverse could be a healthy alternative, but damn why is it that this place gets to be so much smaller than the corporate networks and yet feel just as toxic as them?
I started working on the Fediverse because I believed that normies could benefit from social media that is mot controlled by any corporation. Now I am starting to feel like the only winning move is not to play.
myself and many people make our own experience. just block. think about real life. If someone was mean to you in real life do you regularly converse with them? Do you go to a bar where the bouncer at the door is a jerk to you and won’t let you in half the time? Peruse all and just block both for those things or just things you don’t care for. I block sports, meme, and communities in a language I don’t understand. Blocking is not mean its just a way to filter. People will give bs about being in a bubble but I have a much better chance of finding quality posts im interested in if I get rid of the junk and look at all.
If I try to browse by all it feels even worse, because the frontpage is dominated by the anxieties and neuroses of the zeitgeist. The only solace I am getting is that some of communities in the topic-specific.instances I am running started to get some frequent posters, but to be honest to have 3-5 people participating in a community about e.g, basketball, just feels too little, too late.
oh one thing and im not sure if its piefed or all the forum type front ends but like there is very little traction in pathfinder and startrekonline. there is a bell icon that you can activate to get notified about all posts. its been around a while but my brain did not take it in. Its massively good for niche things with few posts but you don’t want to miss any. The other thing is the wikipedia guy has a thing called trust cafe. its claim to fame is you can rank everything and your feed will populate based on rankings. so basically everything defaults to 50 and you can rank it 0 to 100. people, communities, individual posts. so basically its an algorithm but it uses your choices for the weights. I would be using it but its not federated and I do like the philosophy around no central control. Hope you find what you want out there.
Just report to your admin the spam accounts problem solved (and report to the instance the account is hosted on)
I am the admin of the instance. I don’t think the posting is a problem.
It’s funny you described that account’s behavior as so abhorrent it might cause you to quit the fediverse, but also that you don’t have a problem with it.
I think it’s crazy to expose yourself to content that makes you upset but to each their own.
I said at the original post…
Ironically, I reported your comment due to your veiled implication I have mental issues.
You completely edited your comment to remove the offensive part. Ok. I will take that as an apology.
Replying to your new comment: you misunderstood.
I’m not the one being affected by cm0002’s behavior. My rant is not "I want to quit because I am feeling bad about their particular actions - this doesn’t affect me directly, I can tune it out just fine, I don’t attach myself emotionally to anything here. My rant is to simply externalize this realization that social media seems to be a place that self-selects for fucked-up people, so there isn’t much of a point in trying to build a “healthier alternative”.