[bouncing]

I would rephrase it: mastodon is full of cliques. The cliques form around moderation, politics, whether they federate with Threads.net, what content warnings are used, and even whether alt text is “required” for images.

Then some instances defederate otherwise innocent instances that don’t have sufficient agreement on all those points, regardless of actual content.

It is kind of tiring and honestly hard to recommend.

[M2Ys4U]

>I would rephrase it: mastodon is full of cliques.

It's social networking. Of course there are going to be cliques. That's what happens when you put a non-trivial number of humans in one space (be it virtual or physical).

[vidarh]

So is Twitter, and every other social network. They just don't give you the tools to clearly delineate boundaries.

[bouncing]

There are debates and groups on other networks.

But there aren’t schisms over alt text or content warnings for food on Threads.

[prmoustache]

I haven't observed any debates on these topics from my fediverse account so I guess you see them only if you are looking for them.

[vidarh]

Is it a feature to you that whole sections of society are absent from it? Because otherwise those views would be there.