In the vast majority of my online interactions if there's a misreading or someone is offended etc its pretty short lived and people are quick to clarify or apologize. Some people on the other hand appear to have been really traumatized by past online experiences. I like Mastodon because it seems to be low on the PTSD scale for most people. Conversations are friendly and misunderstandings short lived. So far. I avoided Twitter because it was not that. I'm still pining for 1990s Usenet newsgroups