Is Mastodon mainly for far left?

I find it funny that there are "block lists" distributed to Mastodon admins listing reasons for why certain nodes should be blocked; my favorite is the "free speech" category of nodes to block. It would be one thing if nodes were blocked for hate speech, science denial, or spreading misinfo, but free speech? The epidemic of people blocking so many Mastodon instances/enclaves is hurting the migration away from Twitter: why go to Mastodon if it's more balkanized than federated? Just let individual users block others on the Fediverse -- like Twitter supports.

> Because of US left/right politics global warming has become a political topic rather than a scientific one.

Any issue for which a policy response is advocated is, ipso facto, a political one.

But the reason climate change is a globally controversial political issue is that it fits the game theoretical conditions of tragedy of the commons as well as having large up-front costs for delayed benefits (the latter not being a huge deal, but it compounds the former.) This manifests in, but is not caused by, US right (“capitalism is good, but taking coordinated action to avoid environemntal catastrophe damaging human society is good for capital”)/farther-right (“capitalism is good, and if there is a need to take action for the long term, it will be rewarded by the market without government intervention so as to make it the natural choice”) politics.

So strange that those who fled Twitter in fear of free speech & in protest of the political right being allowed back on Twitter, joined a platform which is (largely) resistant to deplatforming and censorship.

There are plenty of right-wing mastodon instances full of climate deniers. Trump’s TruthSocial is one, gab.com is another.

I agree citing scientific sources fortifies an argument, but I would advise you to take anything on Wikipedia as an unreliable source. Wikipedia is not a reputable source unfortunately.

Here are a few reliable sources you can look into for information about climate science and climate change:

Websites:

    NASA's Climate Change and Global Warming website (https://climate.nasa.gov/) offers an extensive collection of data, interactive features, and explanatory articles.
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (https://www.ipcc.ch/) produces comprehensive reports about climate change.
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate.gov (https://www.climate.gov/) provides climate news, data, maps, and more.

Books:

    "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells: This book offers an uncompromising look at the potential impacts of climate change if left unchecked.
    "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate" by Naomi Klein: Klein makes a case for how addressing climate change requires major changes to our economic system.
    "Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know" by Joseph Romm: This is a clear, concise primer on the key aspects of climate change.
    "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert:This Pulitzer-winning, discussing the ongoing mass extinction driven by human activity, including climate change.
    "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming" edited by Paul Hawken: This book compiles and evaluates solutions to climate change.

It's worth mentioning that understanding climate science also involves learning about related disciplines like chemistry, physics, and earth sciences, so exploring resources in those areas may be beneficial as well. Good luck!