important caveat:
this is a very different sort of criticism than "mastodon's moderation is fundamentally technically broken and might not be solvable while still operating under activitypub" lol. I mean. there's a reason I have a private mastodon account and a public cohost one.
Totally! Like it's true that people are often petty bickering assholes but it's also true that despite that, we can find ways to work together, though it may not always be pleasant because there will be conflict.
I think a lot of "fear of conflict" as a tenet of white supremacist culture, but I think there's a lot to be said about how bourgeois mores also favor the illusion of lack of conflict by the process of alienating the consumer from the labor that was used to produce the product.
You see the bottle of soda in the store for you to simply grab, you do not see the struggle of every worker to get that soda in the bottle and on the shelf.
yeah. moderation appears to scale on twitter only because the companies have deliberately rendered invisible the warehouses full of underpaid workers who have to look at beheading videos all day, and it's a lot more comfortable to just not have to think about that.
