[krapp]

There is no "signup screen" for "Mastodon." It isn't a centralized platform like Twitter. You choose to follow specific instances or people - and normal people have political views (such as all of the politics in your comment, here.) If you don't want politics, don't follow politics, simple as. Unlike with Twitter, blocking actually works in the fediverse.

But honestly, if seeing one signup form was all it took to send you on a tilt about censorship and radical leftists? Stay on Twitter.

[justforasingle]

This is what I was referring to in regards to a signup: https://mastodon.social/auth/sign_up

By the way I would hardly characterise myself as being 'on a tilt' in my post, I simply stated that mastodon was x.com but for the other side. Perhaps you are on a tilt and anyone level-headed appears as tilted?

[infotainment]

I think this shows you just fundamentally misunderstood how Mastodon works. (Which, admittedly, is pretty common, since the onboarding is terrible.)

Those rules are all for mastodon.social, which is a specific server running the Mastodon Twitter-Like software. There exist countless other servers with their own sets of rules (one of which may be more to your liking) that you could join. No matter which server you join, you can generally interact (follow, reply, etc) with people on other servers.

[rsynnott]

… Wait, what upset you there? Twitter has nearly all of those rules; it’s just become extremely bad at enforcing them.

[paulmd]

Censorship is when no hate speech and gore

But they also complain about having to see hitlerisms and gore??? Like do you want to see the child with half a head or not, I’m so confused.

Maybe they are just laboring under the misapprehension that you can somehow compartmentalize the two on the same platform and not inherently attract Nazis/gore-enthusiasts to your new gorehost/onlygore social media.

[hackerlight]

I wonder if there's an AI product/startup idea here. A personal AI firewall that aggressively curates social media content and only shows you content that benefits you (posts that are information dense, curious, and not angry), instead of benefiting the corporation or benefiting someone's ideological agenda by keeping you doomscrolling.

Anyways, I've been moderately happy with Bluesky. It's got an obvious left-bias (probably just due to a flight of left-leaning people from X), but it doesn't have racism, gore, porn, so I don't go away feeling down like I do after using X.