You know we have a real problem in our society when these women haven’t been able to come forward with these allegations until the press have contacted them.

If they fear coming forward after being assaulted by someone who is hardly discreet about being a sexual predator, what must it be like for the victims of more outwardly respectable public figures?

Touché

Even if this isn’t the most dangerous of challenges it’s still incredibly pointless and uninspired. Are there any that aren’t?

I’ve not seen a lot of coverage of this in the English press but his mother also shut herself in a church and went on hunger strike to protest the mistreatment of the poor boy.

If the only people defending you in this type of case are your mother and Woody Allen then I think you can safely assume you’re in the wrong.

These challenges are awful in absolutely every way. It’s hard to think of a more senseless way to go.

Are there any social media “challenges” that are actually funny, entertaining or creative rather than just being unpleasant and/or dangerous?

I have the same problem as you with mastodon, I’m interested in topics not in people so the format just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

I’ve had very limited success with following hashtags, it sounds like a neat idea, but I’ve not found enough hashtags that I’m interested in with enough activity to make it worthwhile.

The nature of it also makes it more superficial - it’s short comments and posts on a topic rather than more in depth discussion.

In the end, I think mastodon is a really neat replacement for twitter - but I never had a twitter account for a reason, and those reasons are still there with mastodon, for me at least.

I get it, but I’ve not really managed to get into Mastodon myself. I’m really liking Lemmy so far and have found a lot of great content, but even though I signed up for a mastodon account a loooong time ago I can’t seem to get into it? Any tips for finding decent content?

Maybe it’s just the type of platform. I’ve never gotten into twitter either.