Ok, so, as you might be able to tell from my picture, I'm a mayo fella. I've been reading stuff over on mastodon (I'm running both, some friends have chosen there). How is CoSo for people who aren't mayo and cis and male? Like some of the instances over there seem to be having a pretty shit reaction to new folks who are not .. you know, me or me-like.
@Camerondotca while my experience will be different given that I am a white guy, toxicity is something that anyone can sniff out. CoSo does se very chill and welcoming. But it’s also still quite small so it could change when it starts to get to be 10 or 50 or 100 times it’s current size. Even though 90% of the people I followed on the bird went to Mastadon when they started to look elsewhere, I’m just not digging it. There is something off about it (already toxic, cliquie, I’m not sure…)
@TheRuralProgressive Some of the "use CW" discourse over there is.. erm.. Like, yes, obvious stuff, go for it. And a discussion of what counts as "obvious" or "needs a cw" is clearly a thing that should happen. But CW because your post has many words? Like? Dudes? Chill.
@Camerondotca that’s exactly it. It’s like a message board with aggressive mods and people being too precious about the space. Yes, have some rules and encourage good posting practices. But as you said, just relax
@TheRuralProgressive Like, people will get it, or they won't. The "use CW for long posts" reply was quite a bit past passive aggressive and firmly into just snide and aggressive.