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by gray_charger 1187 days ago
Most likely, yes. Those with a different worldview are cut off from the fediverse and many client apps blacklist those instances that gain momentum from being usable in the client app. For example, Gab.
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In my experience, the blacklists are all pretty sensible. Mostly porn, neonazis, that kind of stuff.

I haven't opened Gab in a while so I just loaded the front page, and I can see why Mastodon moderators don't want to deal with them either. The content is not as blatantly illegal as many other blacklisted sites, but the front page is incredibly toxic and hateful. I would block most of those posts if they woulf ever hit my personal instance.

Feel free to join (or set up) an instance that doesn't employ blacklists, though. The default Mastodon configuration comes with an empty blacklist so I'm sure there are servers out there that will let you access Gab and other blacklisted servers if you wish.

However, other servers are allowed to block you or your server at their digression if you're boosting or posting content they don't care for. After all, freedom of speech does not imply any obligation to be heard.

its kinda easy to be labelled neonazi these days
And yet, somehow, I have avoided it. Curious.
You're neo-nazi!
lol, nice.
Perhaps, but the people I'm referring to actually promote the idea that Jews deserve to be killed for being Jews.
Is it? Hasn't been a problem for me.
That's because you're not in the "basket of deplorables"
That would seem to be a very easy place to avoid.
How? One's political views are largely an expression of innate personality traits. And, as we have seen, the basket of deplorable includes anyone who is not explicitly left wing.
It's not really a problem if none cares who you are.
Speaking from personal experience?
That's because the Overton Window have shifted to the right so much.
There are a lot of neonazis around these days...
Yeah, you don't have to be an actual neonazi, just be friends with and support them and their views.
I was accused of white-supremacism for questioning the mask.

I think that illustrates the way these things work pretty clearly.

being labelled neonazi is about as easy as being labelled "libtard". The very left oriented people often have a strong sense of moral superiority, and will directly accuse anyone who does not agree of being a neonazi. in general i would say though, when you are pointing with one finger, 4 are pointing back at yourself (and by this I dont mean you, its an expression)
Except that when you're marching with swastikas, and displaying nazi signs and slogans, it's kind of difficult to claim you're not a nazi. But you keep right on assuming you have a moral position.
> Those with a different worldview are cut off from the fediverse

I find this happens most often to people with a worldview that is objectively incompatible with civilization.

Evidenced by the fact that they disagree with the progressive orthodoxy of the moment.
Civilizations were built on slavery, imperialism, xenophobia, exploitation, theft, appropriation and intolerance.
I find this to happen between groups of instances which audiences has different stamps on the front cover of passports.

In case that is going to turn out to correlate with “worldview[s] that [are] objectively incompatible with [the other] civilization”, … what could it mean …

They are more than welcome to spew their incompatible worldview on Twitter. I don’t understand why anyone would be upset they don’t feel welcome on Mastodon; they got everything they wanted on Twitter from Musk.
Isn't that the free market you want? You can build your own client (even by forking!) if you disagree.
This is incorrect.

With some charity, you could say Gab has a different worldview. However, there are also people who think sex with children is ok. That is also technically 'a different worldview'. You see, there is a reason Gab has been cut off, and it is not just that he has a different worldview.

If you don't list the specific reason, you distort the most important part of this particular moderation. I noticed this is a fairly common myth in what seems like a right-wing frame of 'progressive politics trying to limit freedom of speech'.

Do you have a link to the instance(s) that were blacklisted you're referring to?
The blacklist is visible on the about page of each instance. Feel free to go sample a few. The first one I tried had literal swastikas in the user name of the first post. It went downhill from there.