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by Karrot_Kream
3350 days ago
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I'm mostly saying this because I don't use a Mastodon instance myself. I don't really want to get into a protracted argument over naming, GNU, etc, etc but: > * GNU social instances, in general, are not pleasant places. For whatever reasons, the worst fediverse instances (i.e. those that feature child porn, hate speech, etc etc) are generally GNU Social. This will (and maybe already has, to some degree) changed, but it matters a lot that the vast majority of mastodon instances and mastodon users are basically decent people that are very conscious of the climate around them. I really have no problem with the wild west nature of the internet at large. I grew up digitally on the internet and physically in an income depressed area, so the idea of "country clubbing" my life seems counterproductive. But hey you do you! The beauty of the Fediverse is that we can all talk to each other! |
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Yes, it is "country clubbing" to avoid sharing child pornography... It does indeed seem counterproductive to avoid people who revel in that. After all, it's not like we can kill them for their ideas so we might as well listen to and look at literally everything they say all the time.
> But hey you do you! The beauty of the Fediverse is that we can all talk to each other!
Quite the contrary: the beauty of the Fediverse is that we can create sub-networks that allow us to talk to fewer people. Talking to every single person is FAR more effectively done on a centrally managed network like Twitter.
Even without instance blocks and mutes, the amount of time it takes for messages to propagate across the fediverse is long enough to create segmentation and shape user behavior.