I've never used Mastodon but I know that on some parts of the web, vicious verbal attacks are very common. It's part of the price that one sometimes pays for th

I've never used Mastodon but I know that on some parts of the web, vicious verbal attacks are very common. It's part of the price that one sometimes pays for the benefits of a low-censorship environment. Sometimes, like on 4chan for example, it's almost part of the culture. Someone on 4chan calling you an ethnic slur is pretty much just the equivalent of someone here on Hacker News saying "I am sorry, but I must disagree". Different language norms for different spaces. I'm totally used to such language and it does not bother me. My attitude is that if I'm not getting doxxed, I don't care what people online say about my anonymous identity. I can remove them from my world with one click of a button, after all.