Yup, on the internet these days it is fine to talk about the most vile and disgusting things you can imagine, to a point. And that point is if you say joke about apoptosis and an elected official or some billionaire in the same sentence, it is [ Removed by Reddit ]. It is amazing the era of censorship we find ourselves in today and no one seems to be complaining about it either.
I have been a mastodon user for ages. Its a great platform.
But I haven't been able to recruit for it. And the app I used died and was removed from the play store. I use it to read interesting conversations between european hackers.
It certainly hasnt paid dividends to run my own masto server. I will be retiring it and moving my account somewhere else. I dont post anything there, because nobody I know is there, and so why care about owning my own data?
Mastodon might be better for corporate censorship, but I remember hearing that federated platforms can have problems with censorship from instances blocking each other.
I tried Nostr but there wasn't a great algorithim. All the interesting things are on twitter. I don't really see a huge point in having an account on twitter, though—it feels like all comments go into the void.
Running isn't any long term solution. That is why people are mad. Censorship follows where the people are. If a critical mass of people goes to mastodon, that is where the advertising and censorship will go. Just like how it went to reddit after a critical mass went there.
The comparison doesn’t even make sense. Reddit is a centralized platform, not a protocol.
I won’t say it’s impossible to censor something like nostr but good luck with that.