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I tried to post the link to this particular post (article?) on Twitter and it claimed there was an error: > Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Twitter is not letting me share this information!
In the case where all of the normal options are gone, sure, you're fucked. But in 99.9% of cases, you do have options to migrate.
Mastodon has options. You are given control, even notionally. Twitter doesn't even pretend to give you options. If you're banned, fuck you, that's it. If a billionaire buys the platform, fuck you, that's it.
If a mastodon server starts going downhill, you have options. If a mastodon admin goes off the rails, you have options. If dama happens and the server defederates from another, you still have options.
Mastodon gives you more opportunity and choice in all circumstances. There is no escape hatch for Facebook or Twitter, if something goes wrong you're just fucked. There isn't even a live person you could hypothetically talk to about it.
Sure, mastodon has problems. The exchange is that it's a truly free service without adversiments, algorithms, or coerced engagement. You don't generate money for the platform owner. That comes with risks, and you have options to deal with that risk.
Whether or not you like those options is entirely irrelevant. The options exist on mastodon, they do not exist on Twitter.
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The only way to avoid that is to stand up your own instance. And that is the great thing about decentralized systems. Because you as a user have no visibility into the systems, finances, nor management of any of these platforms. I still blog on a server I rent but the backup is hosted in a server in my closet. I’m fully aware that rental can go away any time. And that’s been the case for decades. Maybe it’s a generat…
I'm on my own Mastodon instance but should it get banned I'd pretty much lose my followers. I think that was the original point. Otherwise agreed, neither Twitter nor Mastodon owe me anything.
But generally it takes a lot to get banned by most fediverse instances. You basically either need to be a nazi or consort with nazis.
There are, of course, instances that would ban you for less than that, but these tend to be much smaller and trying to foster a very specific type of community. If they'd ban you, they probably wouldn't follow you either.
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>So you pre-decided to sign up for a specific instance which was closed to signups and is then surprised you can't sign up. I saw that elonjet had found a new home there so assumed I wouldn't have any trouble signing up. The "Create Account" button on mastodon.social seemed promising too.
The "Create Account" button does indeed let you create a Mastodon account. Just not on mastodon.social. I can't seem to reconcile your description with what happens when you press that button, though.
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> By world standards twitter was far left Whose world standards? The US left is the European right.
Places like Colombia, India, China, South Africa. There the average person doesn't agree that transwomen are women.
Discrimination against trans people for their gender identity is illegal, and the hate speech laws consider gender identity to be a protected category. [0]
It's true that a proportion of the population is conservative and does not agree with this or with LGBTQ rights in general, but that's true of any population.
[0] https://www.southernafricalitigationcentre.org/wp-content/up...