So here's what I've learned.
Mastodon isn't Twitter.
And that's by design.
You've grown used to things designed to give you that anger rush.
Mastodon is very deliberately built to avoid that.
The temptation is to replicate your Twitter experience.
Picking arguments, amplifying trolls.
Please don't.
This isn't your house, people here put time into building it.
Content warnings, ALT tags.
Don't turn it into a replica of the mess you just left.
If you miss the fights, the birdsite is still there.
@faduda I came here in part to be free to fight though, birdsite tied my hands behind my back and let others abuse me with no way for me to defend myself, if I so much as told someone to "shut the fuck up retard" I'd be hit with a suspension.
@faduda @Jazzy_Butts Yes because that is a slur
@Jazzy_Butts Just because someone called you a slur doesn’t mean it’s okay for you to call them a slur … Don’t stoop to their level
@april Defending ones self is not stopping to their level. If someone throws a punch at my head I will throw one back, punch for punch, until they stop or I can't punch back anymore.
@april And someone calling me faggot for 100 lines doesn't deserve a response at all, because it is not a real challenge, no effort was put into it. If someone wants to talk about ideas, and they call me a shitass while making their point, their kindness will be returned while I make my counter argument.
if i was going to insult you, i'd call you a fudge-schlicking butt-muncher.
just saying.