I can't see anything on the quoted post. Because I have my own instance and I haven't actively federated with any others, my mastodon is relatively quiet. It's interesting. There is enough activity that I don't feel like I'm invisible. But I can tell I'm missing quite a lot.
I'm going to start exploring what it means to bring more content into my sphere.
https://glasgow.social/@sue/113177793366570689
Sorry. I can see the post. I was saying that I can't see the vast majority of replies. I follow @mekkaokereke, so I see him. The majority of the conversation is invisible to me.
What's weird to me is that federation should mean that you have your own space. Does it feel like most of the people who complain about who they don't wanna see are on mastodon.social? Because it's closer to a centralized melting pot than an instance with a personality?
https://social.wedistribute.org/objects/b309b8aa-2794-4f86-91cf-a1d61fcd7188
@polotek I've definitely seen folks on a variety of instances complain about certain demographics joining fedi, though crucially it seems that the folks on m.s express the "why" in a very different way.
In particular, I've noticed that folks on smaller instances often provide a specific rationale as to why it's a problem, whereas from folks on m.s it often feels more like they're repeating whatever they think the cultural norm is, without necessarily understanding why.
This is of course a generalization and there are exceptions, and not all of the rationales provided are *good* rationales, but the difference in patterns definitely stood out to me.
