.@jalefkowit I think the user interface can help by encouraging or discouraging certain things - this is an interesting area for research and innovation.
But at the end of the day it's a social problem and not all social problems have technical solutions. Maybe we collectively need to learn to behave better.
@NicePoint @jalefkowit @HerraBRE I think, strangely enough, this is a problem that can be fixed with migration.
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If the internet piles on, in the federation, you should be able to move.
@NthTensor @HerraBRE @jalefkowit
Ah, like Westward Expansion in the US early days? Hopefully Manifest Destiny is avoided though. I totally want my own ranch in California, but I'd like to avoid the bloodshed and the dysentery!
@NthTensor @NicePoint @jalefkowit I think I disagree, but it's a point worth considering.
If migration becomes seamless, the harassment follows you to your new identity. If it isn't seamless, then you have been driven from your social circle, bullied into moving.
That doesn't seem like a win either way...
@HerraBRE @NicePoint @jalefkowit Fair point. It is also worth noting mastodon has the same inbuilt flaws of more centralized systems that employ algorithms to suggest popular media.
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The more people pile on on twitter, the more the algorithm suggests it.
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The more people pile on here, the more it will federate.
@HerraBRE @jalefkowit @NthTensor
Agreed on not all social problems have technical solutions. The idea that this isn't necessarily linear is very interesting from a social standpoint: I'd love to see what happens, or does not happen, with the age-old bandwagon here.