It’s federated, some instances will be run by far left, some will be by far right, some by libertarians, some by anime fans and so on. My only hope is these kind of dynamics to actually encourage debates and conflicts as obviously we should not all agree about the same thing, instead of the “if you don’t agree with X then you’re Y and should be banned!!” mindset.
Is Mastodon mainly for far left?
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Re: Is Mastodon mainly for far left?
#22Um, it's not a "different view," it's denial of settled science and actual physical events occurring right now. Do you claim not to believe what the overwhelming majority of climate scientists believe? Do you believe climate science is a hoax? Do you believe that current extreme weather events are just happening by chance?
Regardless of their point of view, I don’t think you should ban someone for disagreeing with you, banning should have clear “why’s”, like distributing illegal content, spamming, etc., if you think that person is wrong, maybe it’s your chance to educate them, or maybe it’s ok that we have different views about things..
Re: Is Mastodon mainly for far left?
#23You can run your own server, but if you use someone else's server you have to follow their rules, whatever they are.
I thing that I will run my own instance. I got ban on official mastodon social site lol
Instances admins can still ban your instance too, just so you know before the hassle of setting it up to get your whole server banned after.
Re: Is Mastodon mainly for far left?
#24Um, it's not a "different view," it's denial of settled science and actual physical events occurring right now. Do you claim not to believe what the overwhelming majority of climate scientists believe? Do you believe climate science is a hoax? Do you believe that current extreme weather events are just happening by chance?
Do you know that earth is 4.5 billion years old and it has own cycles, right?
Yes, we know that. What's your point- that climate change today can be explained by earth's climate cycles?
Re: Is Mastodon mainly for far left?
#25You can have views about art. Climate change, whichever side you come from, is science. You can support one theory over another, but to do so you need to have done some research. A view about science is as hand wavy as having a theory about art. It serves no purpose.
You can have views about anything. No permission needed.
Re: Is Mastodon mainly for far left?
#26You can have views about art. Climate change, whichever side you come from, is science. You can support one theory over another, but to do so you need to have done some research. A view about science is as hand wavy as having a theory about art. It serves no purpose.
You can have views about anything. No permission needed.
Sorry that you didn't understand.
Re: Is Mastodon mainly for far left?
#27By the way, this is a terribly asked question. You embed a wide range of assumptions and made some noob mistakes as well.
You actually have a collection of different questions: 1) Where can I have a reasonable fact-based argument about climate change? 2) I've noticed I got banned, possibly due to ideology, can I avoid doing that? 3) Are opinions on climate change entirely associated with the ideological bent of people running the servers
Here's what you got wrong: 1) Climage change isn't a far left opinion. It's actually fairly centrist, for example I am a democrat but not very progressive, much closer to Republicans than most democrats. So I'm as right of the far left folks as you can get. My ilk don't question climate change, because a wide range of intelligent people have put together a good collection of resources to make a convincing argument. Even republicans are gradually coming around to the idea that climate change is real, it's human caused, and we need to start making some hard policy decisions to deal with it.
2) you said you're a programmer with a stock market hobby, so you're analyzing things. So what? Analysis is fine, but you're analyzing things far outside your normal expertise zone, and these are complicated problems with huge amounts of prior knowledge, being communicated mainly to experts in the field.
3) there are lots of people making weak, psuedoscientific arguments about climate change that are just believeable enough that quantitative people fall for them. THey sound right, they seem to add enough question to the issue, but they don't really. It's just far easier to make weak pseudoscientific arguments than it is to make strong scientific ones.
Re: Is Mastodon mainly for far left?
#28By the way, this is a terribly asked question. You embed a wide range of assumptions and made some noob mistakes as well. You actually have a collection of different questions: 1) Where can I have a reasonable fact-based argument about climate change? 2) I've noticed I got banned, possibly due to ideology, can I avoid doing that? 3) Are opinions on climate change entirely associated with the ideological bent of peopl…
Sorry but it isn't a terribly asked question.
It's an question based on reality.
I have no idea why they gave me bans when I started to "talk" about my point of view on global warming (or how they call it nowdays).
Where is freedom of speech, heh?
Re: Is Mastodon mainly for far left?
#29Re: Is Mastodon mainly for far left?
#30By the way, this is a terribly asked question. You embed a wide range of assumptions and made some noob mistakes as well. You actually have a collection of different questions: 1) Where can I have a reasonable fact-based argument about climate change? 2) I've noticed I got banned, possibly due to ideology, can I avoid doing that? 3) Are opinions on climate change entirely associated with the ideological bent of peopl…
Sorry but it isn't a terribly asked question. It's an question based on reality. I have no idea why they gave me bans when I started to "talk" about my point of view on global warming (or how they call it nowdays). Where is freedom of speech, heh?
> Where is freedom of speech, heh?
_You_ are free, generally, to say whatever old nonsense you like. The rest of us, however, are free not to listen to it. You are not generally entitled to a platform.
There are Mastodon instances which will tolerate climate denial; you may want to stick to those.