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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by tomjen3 on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:58PM (#17789994)
That is kind of funny, because Twitter can totally be that, if you want it. You have to be liberal in your usage of the block button, but the advantage is that you have so many genuinely interesting people to follow and learn from. I wouldn't have 1 in 1000 of those on Masterdon, and with their doubling of tweet size, I don't see the problem with arguments.

Before anybody goes about the ecochamber: I ban obnoxious people, self-promoters, bad arguers, I don't ban for sincerely held, well argued politics. I follow a former cam girl, a couple in the rational altruistic movements and a Catholic, pro-life convert.

Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by nanimo on Sunday August 19, 2018 @02:53AM (#17792965)
> I don't ban for sincerely held, well argued politics.

But that's subjective, so you'll just end up reinforcing your own opinions, which is exactly what an echo chamber is, unless I'm missing something...

Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by nradov on Saturday August 18, 2018 @11:16PM (#17792369)
I tried that, but I failed to learn anything interesting in 140 (or even 280) characters.
Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by florabuzzword on Saturday August 18, 2018 @03:01PM (#17790016)
“Rational altruistic movements” puts a hole in your armor here.