The bad people
Mastodon at 300k users:
"Sooner or later, the bad people will show up."
Mastodon at 8 million users:
"At a tiny userbase of 8 million, sure, there aren't bad people yet, but just wait. Once there's even more people here, that's when the bad people will show up."
My friends, consider the radical possibility that the bad people already have shown up, they ARE showing up, and they are already being dealt with.
The overt bad actors aren't the problem. They are easily dealt with.
The bad people
@oliphant There is also the possibility that much of the bad result was not the result of the bad people, but of normal people feeding their worst impulses. I’ve seen many posts that suggested people feel differently here, and are posting more positively here.
There is no guarantee that will remain that way forever, but the tendency of admins to relatively quickly shut down nastiness as they perceive it seems to help.
This place has different besetting sins than the old place, I think.
