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by unmole 1029 days ago
> The inhabitants of some instances are more political than others.

Which ones are less political? I went to a supposedly global and tech focused instance only to find US political slogans in the "About" page itself.

> If you actually create an account you will be able to pick and choose whose posts you want to see.

That didn't work on Twitter and I doubt it'll work on Mastodon. Neither of them have a way of categorising posts into topics. There's no way to follow someone to get updates about their work without being subjected to whatever political digressions they chose to share.

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> There's no way to follow someone to get updates about their work without being subjected to whatever political digressions they chose to share.

Well that's a weakness inherent to microblogging, some people like it evidently (as seen by the success of Twitter). I don't and only got a Mastodon account because I need it to follow some work I'm interested in, and indeed I need to ignore posts I don't care about.

Following and ignoring tags helps, but it's not perfect. But it works better than on Twitter.