i don't know wtf is going on and it's none of my business but clearly people need to use the block button more. to be fair: even with this app's legit great tools to block en masse, it really needs to be a lot easier. public microblogging is toxic as fuck because everyone is default connected.

this is extremely fucked up for human beings. you're normally separated from other people by virtue of physical distance, and social structures arise to counter that and build ties incrementally. public social networks completely invert that pattern. so does the open web, but that's different:

the open web does not make everything immediately extremely discoverable to everyone else. this app has the Discover feed, which is something that imo should not exist, because it creates social ties algorithmically. social ties should always be created through individual human intent.

which is also why strongly attached families are such a common source of toxicity: you don't choose them. and schools and churches and other social institutions that people are compelled into. humanity needs to move away from this pattern. public social networks move in the wrong direction.

twitter was a mistake. the rest is downstream from that.

not that toxicity can't happen in opt-in social structures; of course it can. but it's easier to deal with because you can just leave one space and still be connected in every other space.