@adamdavidson he didn’t say he wanted elon to get rid of them. He said mastodon seemed like a honey trap for them. And honestly my biggest worry about this platform is that it will be an ideological monoculture. The mirror image of truth social. Twitter was great precisely because it included some people with challenging perspectives.
There are challenging perspectives, and then there are challenging perspectives. :)
I kind of like Mastodon being a place where for instance I can say something about housing as a right, without someone completely innocent of any knowledge of the real world parachuting in and insisting that if only government got out of the way, the free market would inevitably solve homelessness. One gets tired of trying to teach Econ 101 to trolls.
(And where, if a person like that does show up, the cultural expectation is that I would just block them, and look at their server to see if I wanted to block the whole thing.)
I don't really support this idea that it's good to interact with lots of people with positions that are completely ludicrous (Flat Earthers), odious (racism, transphobia, Trumpism), or both (Qanon etc.).
I am happy to have a good-faith discussion with someone who differs from me on, say, the morality of using AI art tools.
But I am also happy not to encounter anyone who thinks that trans people are mentally ill, or that gay people should be executed. If that's a "monoculture", it's a good one.
@ceoln @adamdavidson @timlee Eloquently said. Thank you!
“Oh we have to listen to both sides” is absolutely ridiculously.
On some issues, there are NO both sides. Most centre of right people are just right wing republicans passing off as intellectual moderates.