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Mastodon is cool, but it's far from immune to mob mentality – see Wil Wheaton thing a few months ago: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/31/17801404/mastodon-hara
by fiala__ 8y ago
Mastodon is cool, but it's far from immune to mob mentality – see Wil Wheaton thing a few months ago:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/31/17801404/mastodon-harassment-wil-wheaton-mobs-twitter https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/31/17801404/mastodon-harassm...
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- dvtrn 8y agoI don't believe anything is immune from mob mentality as long as impulsive, emotional human beings are participating.
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoI believe visible scores are the only reason for mob mentality. Take away the pluses or the minuses and the numbers attached to them and heard mentality weakens. You still have some attachment from surroundings opinions but to a much lesser extent. At that point the behavior shifts from micro to macro, from a single post to the whole platform. HN is the perfect example of this.