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Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by tayo42 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:59AM (#34077206)
I think its just having a comments section. Which basically what twitter replies are or like linked in replies.

If books had a comment section they would be toxic.

Even this site gets toxic in the comments, there isn't any brand building, no real reason to collect likes.

Github can get toxic in pr comments.

Toxic behavior gets encouraged by likes and stuff. Ime the worst message boards were the ones with reputation that could be awarded or taken away.

Group chats have a social repercussions for being an ass. The internet doesn't for the most part.

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Re:Mozilla to Explore Healthy Social Media Alternative by klabb3 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:12AM (#34077288)
Yeah there’s always instances of toxicity on anything large, even group chats like slack for instance. I am talking about overall trends on a large scale, which is hard to measure and subjective – but think of healthy as “producing more oxygen than it consumes” and vice versa for unhealthy. It’s just the least wrong but still general model I’ve been able to come up with. YMMV.
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