[OfSanguineFire]

I feel the same way about Mastodon. The founding generation of that ecosystem has very strident views about certain matters that are foreign (and in the sense of "never even think about it", let alone "I disagree") to probably over 90% of the world population. Expectations are that the bulk of entrenched Mastodon instances are going to ban federations with instances that permit discussion beyond what that founding cohort is comfortable with, so here, too, the technology almost exists to propel ideals, too.

[jl6]

My experience with Mastodon was that you can choose between:

* Echo chamber islands with purity spirals that enforce the banning of Problematic instances

* “Free speech” instances where all the refugees from the above go, but which are just a different flavor of cesspool

Moderation is hard.

[Karrot_Kream]

Yeah likewise. One of the reasons (well I'm an old-time SSB fan) I'm interested in Bluesky is that defederation isn't really a thing and so the failure modes of splintering communities isn't as big of a deal. When individuals have more power and mods have less, the impact of politics on the community would probably be more diffuse. Or that's the hope anyway. The mods = gods era of the internet was always a colorful one.