vice says the internet isnt as toxic as it feels, and it only feels this toxic because the 3% of users making it that way just wont shut the fuck up

https://www.vice.com/en/article/study-reveals-the-actual-percentage-of-toxic-social-media-users/

@Viss I guess an alternate reading of the data is it only takes 3% to make a space extremely toxic :/

@aburka it would seem to be the case, yeah - and reading between the lines tells me that folks would rather suffer and complain than do anything about it

@Viss I think that, plus the absence of engagement maximizing algorithms, plus the absence of “suggested” or “promoted” content, plus the absence of ads and thus revenue sharing, plus the ability to choose an instance by its moderation and (de)federation, explains the healthier discourse in fediverse. That 3% quickly get themselves banned on any instance the rest of us would choose, and find themselves relegated to the instances with which ours won’t federate. And then no one sees their toxicity but their fellow denizens of the cesspool servers.

@Viss that sounds right

@Viss Just one more reminder that community and proper moderation are vital.

@ZenHeathen yup

@deFractal @Viss in fediverse the social cost of migration to a server with better moderation is extremely low. But for other places that cost is skyhigh because most of the time it means leaving your community. And as twitter shows, things can get really shitty and people will still stay.