Why Should I Be Kind to Other People?
Content Wrapping on Mastodon, and a guide to being a better member of society.
I’m going to cut straight to the punch-line. Why be kind to people? Because it’s nice to be kind. Because being kind improves the likelihood of open dialogue, builds networks of trust and mutual respect, and helps ensure a longer-lasting and far more satisfying world.
When the social media network known as Twitter started to implode in late 2022, after Elon Musk purchased it with the full support of his long-time friend Jack Dorsey, people flocked en masse to a different social platform: Mastodon.
But, when they arrived, they found a culture that surprised them. On Twitter, it was commonplace to see people engaging in “Twitter wars” consisting of flurries of ill-spirited tweets. Frightening content was pushed by both the code algorithm behind Twitter, and by indoctrinated users alike. A culture of meanness and passive violence was simply endemic.
