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They have a voice. What they don’t have any more is the privilege to use it without any consequences.
I wish the Left experienced the same, then. Large, influential accounts calling for white genocide and education camps publicly with no consequences or media backlash is a travesty.
If Mastodon takes off because of Musk ill be pretty amused. There is an irony to Mastdon, a more open platform than Twitter, becoming more popular because people thought Musk would make Twitter... more open.
I think "More open Twitter" is a red herring. The bigger issue seems to be that people simply dislike and distrust Musk.
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I've always been curious about that. Does Twitter forbid discussing lowering taxes? Maybe demanding harsher immigration policies? Higher prison sentences? Bans on abortion? Shutting down the department of education? Reinstating a monarchy? Who is more conservative than The Federalist? Quillette posts "race science" articles, and even the Claremont Institute, which is so reactionary that it balks at the term "conserva…
I'm not a big Twitter user but am often bombarded with right wing content on other sites like Reddit and Youtube no matter how often I try to tell the site/train the algorithm that it's not content I'm interested in seeing whatsoever, the idea that conservatives are being silenced when I (a left wing Brit) am constantly seeing their content is frankly ridiculous
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I wish the Left experienced the same, then. Large, influential accounts calling for white genocide and education camps publicly with no consequences or media backlash is a travesty.
Got any examples of accounts?
Sorry, you'll have to take my word for it, and you'll need to have enough interest and curiosity to care. I don't mean to assume you don't, and I want to think you're genuinely interested in knowing, but at the risk of sounding rude, people who usually ask for evidence or examples didn't spend any time looking on their own, and seek only to condemn, deny, or denounce the OP's claims at any cost — or worse, when evidence is shared, twist it into something it's not and make excuses for it.
A quick search got me reprehensible posts generalizing White people, or highlights patently racist behavior towards Whites by people (and news media) that are still allowed to exist quite freely on Twitter, like so:
1. https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1325702297402306561 (AOC calling for White re-education en masse, is patently racist)
2. https://twitter.com/SkyCricket/status/1280809870766284800
3. https://twitter.com/joanwalsh/status/1584926736583913472
4. https://twitter.com/swordsjew/status/1255273666302095368
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20190111211254/https://twitter.c... (this thread was not deleted, the account that posted it has made their profile private — however this thread was allowed to exist for years).
6. https://twitter.com/WilliamCheeks10/status/10693653458220892... (small account, still stands as a reply off a Guardian news post)
7. https://web.archive.org/web/20210108061020/https://twitter.c... (smaller account, but still allowed to stand)
8. https://twitter.com/Brother_Jacob1/status/128084335718345113... (smaller account, but still allowed to stand)
Generally the most likely response at this point is "You're cherrypicking" (and thus invalidates my entire claim), right?
Disclaimer: my snark isn't directed at you by the way. I just find it fun to presume the outcomes of a — 1) share 2) evidence pls 3) shares evidence 4) ??? — interaction.
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They have a voice. What they don’t have any more is the privilege to use it without any consequences.
I wish the Left experienced the same, then. Large, influential accounts calling for white genocide and education camps publicly with no consequences or media backlash is a travesty.
Here's a video about how it was to feel cancellation of a leftist (from people also on the left!). It's long but you might find it entertaining.
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This. Mastodon is a federation in name only. If the protocol is not the policy then you really don't have a federation at all, rhetoric notwithstanding. I note that this is not a problem particular to Mastodon/The Fediverse, though, as its the exact problem that led to people forking their own networks off of FidoNet.
You can run your own and federate with whomever. It’s unlikely that this scenario will be common. It’s more likely that the large instances switch to whitelisting eventually. Maybe self-hosting could be made more common through selling a (cheap) appliance with self-hosted services pre-installed. It is not clear how to solve the chicken-and-egg problem with such a setup. Also, someone will need to maintain the tunnels…
Mastondon-as-a-service exists eg https://masto.host/.
one-click-install mastodon exists too -eg https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/04/mastodon-now-available...
Twitter is the only platform I know where you can search for people who share your interests and then connect with them. The whole #buildinpublic community is just insanely great. Everybody is building something. Everybody is having similar issues to talk about. You can make so many great connections and help each other out. But I feel that with Twitter becoming a private company owned by a single controversial perso…
I don't know I started reusing twitter 2 months ago after years of not really using it. My main gripe is it looks like it locked me up in a bubble full of accounts with similar interests and ideas. I don't really feel challenged and I am almost totally excluded from other subjects that could theorically interest me.
If you wait for the algorithm to feed you the content you like you will find the limits of AI.
I use Twitter to follow fellow engineers and honestly all the politics (regardless of the new guy in charge) was getting annoying. I might as well use this opportunity to become more active on mastadon. Can anyone recommend a good android client? Preferably from f-droid?
Twitter is the only platform I know where you can search for people who share your interests and then connect with them. The whole #buildinpublic community is just insanely great. Everybody is building something. Everybody is having similar issues to talk about. You can make so many great connections and help each other out. But I feel that with Twitter becoming a private company owned by a single controversial perso…
I don't twitter or mastodon. But isn't "people who share your interests and then connect with them" exactly what the different mastodon instances are for? You're kinda supposed to find a server that aligns with your interest.
You can usually browse an instance without having an account, for example: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/explore (user directory) https://mastodon.gamedev.place/public (stream)
And once your instance federates with it (happens automatically, just needs any user to follow any user on the other one), you can search for hashtags.
Why isn’t there a no login moweb version of this ? Would love to check out before downloading the app
For example: https://social.linux.pizza/public