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How disheartening to have an appreciation of human generosity and kindness pushed down by HN.

Kind, compassionate discourse has also been my experience of Mastodon and SSB: they're turning the idea on its head that social media must by default be hateful.

It's eye opening to see how centralized platforms have it in their best interest to keep people enraged and engaged. The federating, community-run instances of Mastodon do not.

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I'm a little baffled my comment was downvoted, too; and it's another one of those instances where I wish there was a requirement to give a reason for downvoting on HN.

I'm not sure what on earth about my original comment there could be considered as 'negative', or 'factually incorrect'. I simply provided an honest anecdotal account of my experience with the service; which I feel is relevant to the conversation.

And you were right. I suspect bigots. I miss slashdot's reasons for up/down voting.

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