[xbmcuser]

Because of US left/right politics global warming has become a political topic rather than a scientific one. Most if not all science points to global warming being man made and getting worse. If you deny it then I understand why you are getting bans. Though from what I understand Mastodon was service that got traction from the US right not the US left so you getting banned from it mean you probably don't understand the science at all.

[dragonwriter]

> 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.

[explain]

> Though from what I understand Mastodon was service that got traction from the US right not the US left

Definitely the US left.

When the US right tried to use Mastodon, their instances got cut off and in many cases, Mastodon apps would block connecting to them entirely.

[rsynnott]

Or, indeed, they self-isolate (gab doesn't federate anymore, ol' minihands' Mastodon instance never did).

[explain]

Gab did initially federate, but all the big instances blocked them and many app clients blocked connecting to Gab's instance.

[oldnet]

Mastodon was developed in Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)