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That thread is fascinating, to say the least.
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It really highlights why I have avoided Mastodon entirely.

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That means the vast majority of people are born as fascists and only the mastodonians are the ones going against the fascist nature of this world.

Not sure how that is supposed to help the anti-fascist cause.


Should have added a sarcasm tag.

You almost had me there for a second, but I picked up on it before the downvoters did.

I think it's an unfortunate reality whenever you have a network which is popularized by a boycott of other services' actions or values. Those who care the most or are the most affected by the actions are the most likely to leave and be very vocal in the new space, so the new space becomes "theirs." Meanwhile, the original space(s) still keep a lot of the old users who are supportive, ignorant, or ambivalent, so both places become a little more echoed and extreme.

When Reddit ditched 3rd party clients and generally enshittified, I didn't jump ship to Lemmy. I reinstalled an RSS reader and made HN one of the feeds.


Mastodon loves to tout its technical decentralization but it's one of the most politically and culturally monolithic (and intolerant) spaces I've ever seen.

This quote really sticks out (it's arguing against sticking with free software's core principles):

> bwahahahahahaha are u gonna preach “no politics” now too. free software is inherently dogmatic, screw playing centrist




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