I felt the obligation to mention that Mastodon is not friendly at all, and you will have to resort to blocking and filtering all the time.

For example, there are instances which I won't name that are solely made to harass, doxx and stalk other people. There is also a significant amount of political extremism from both the right and the left, and drama is very prevalent just like on Twitter.

You really have to consider that for some, Mastodon is a place to gather if you have been banned from Twitter.

> Mastodon is not friendly at all

This is akin to saying "e-mail is not friendly at all" because you get a lot of spam and scams. It's in the nature of permissionless communication and the answer is the same as for e-mail (filtering and moderation, by user and/or server). If you want to be conservative you can use an allowlist (rather than blocklist) approach.

That has nothing to do with the "friendliness" of the Mastodon project.

Mastodon is not one place. It is many places, many of which interconnect.

You are correct. My post was just intended to show that you have to be careful since there are several malicious communities present on the "fediverse" that have a lot of influence. Also, email does not have a federated timeline where everyone is connected and you can see each others posts. This is not a Mastodon issue but a fediverse issue.

I think mastodons approach is a very good approach. You can as a user block entire instances. And if you are on a good instance many abusive instances are already blocked.

So everybody can have their little space without shitty people.

Especially because city people tend to accumulate in certain instances since they’re not welcomed on eg. mastodon.social

Unfortunately, a lot of instances that block have a double standard where they won't allow nazis but allow anarchism and communism, and all the other ideologies, with people openly promoting harassment towards others. I have not seen an instance that blocks both yet.

That's not a double standard. It's very weird to suggest nazis and anarchists are the same kind of thing.

You can always create your own with like minded ppl.

Maybe some non political instances are a shot worth.

The problem there is that everybody has its own definition of “extreme left” and “extreme right”. So it could be that your preferences are just a bit niche or something like that :)