| I think the architecture of mastadon unintentionally encourages this. When you follow someone on a peered instance, the instance you use must store and forward their posts to you. So if an instance contains mostly content you find disagreeable you may not want to have those on your server. Also if you go to the "global" timeline, you will see posts from all instances which are peered with your instance. So the operators of your instance might not want to "pollute" that timeline with content from instances they find disagreeable. I prefer the alternative architecture used by the nostr protocol. There, your account is not tied to a relay, but to a public key which is used to verify everything you post. You can send your posts to multiple relays which can then be read by anyone who chooses to pull from there. This allows relays to freely block/curate content in the way they like without restricting the freedom of their users to pull content from other sources. Currently, the network is in its infancy, and is mostly populated by bitcoiners, since this is the community where the protocol grew out of. But there is no reason why it can't eventually grow far beyond that, for those with no interest in that topic. |
It's very disappointing to see something that should have encouraged people from disparate backgrounds and views to come together and discuss topics without "engagement" driven controversy baiting, just being used as "Twitter, but you get to make your personal Pyongyang".