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# I Was Wrong About Mastodon
- URL: https://werd.io/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon/
- Published: 2022-12-02T01:03:19.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-02T01:03:19.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Social, #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“What I missed about Mastodon was its very different culture. Ad-driven social media platforms are willing to tolerate monumental volumes of abusive users. They’ve discovered the same thing the Mainstream Media did: negative emotions grip people’s attention harder than positive ones. Hate and fear drives engagement, and engagement drives ad impressions.” [#Social](https://werd.io/tag/Social)

\[[Link](https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html)\]