@freemo Excellent advertising for Libertarian channels to block them.

It just makes me want to check them out that much more.

@LWFlouisa Blue means censorship. You must follow (usually) strict social standards for interaction and if your views tend to be too distateful for people on an instance you will quickly get banned. Usually all you'd have to do is post a political meme that is pro conservative or critical of the left in any way and a blue instance will quickly ban you in my expiernce.

Red instances are free speech zones and tend to only ban people who are excessively disruptive if they ban people at all.

It is terms for PC vs free speech instances.

@freemo Ah Red seems to be the way to go.

I may be a Left Libertarian, but sometimes you need a bit of Right to keep things in balance.

@freemo Obviously that doesn't mean excessive political incorrectness, just that being to blue or red has their own unique problems.

@LWFlouisa I'd much rather be on a red instance and need to block a few racist pieces of shit than to be on a blue instance and worry about getting blocked over having an opinion.

@freemo Yea Wandering.shop must have been a blue instance then.

@freemo They ... blue it for me

@LWFlouisa LOL I hate you :)

@LWFlouisa Red can be a bit much for some too. They can also go the extreme on free speech and even be ok with flat out racism in some cases. Other red instances are more balanced though, just as some blue instances can be more moderate.

I ru a red instance in the sense that we are a free speech zone. But we do have some basic rules (like you cant change accounts just to circumvent personal blocks).

@freemo Well like if I did a Mastodon instance, I don't think its possible, but if it were I wouldn't personally federate with say ... Diaspora.

@LWFlouisa I federate with everything but I do silence a few instances temporarily for language reasons.

@freemo Well like when I think of free speech, what comes to mind isn't slander, libel, or defamation, that sort of thing.

@LWFlouisa True, but you can be a racist and not do any of those things.

@freemo Absolutely, and to me racism isn't covered by free speech.

(Can you tell I'm sick of Diaspora?)

@LWFlouisa I would argue that racism should absolutely be covered by free speech. But only so long as it isnt a "call to action". With that said I don't feel it should be accepted socially.

@freemo I think where my feelings are mixed: there has been situation on Wattpad, where users were called racist, simply because they said they ate Chinese food.

(I wish I were kidding. A lot of the staff seems to be very young adults.)

@freemo They seemed to have borrowed a lot of their ideas of social justice from ... tumblr.

@freemo By contrast, this instance called Woofer, I can kind of see why it was blocked.

@LWFlouisa yea well that happens a lot fromt he left. But its not even just about that, its about the fact that no one should have the right to mak
e that call. The free expression of ideas, no matter how distasteful, should always be protected. It just doesnt mean people need to listen to you.

@freemo Exactly.

@freemo Part of my difficulty, is while I jokingly call myself a crypto-anarchist, I seem to be the inverse of ... if its even called that ... right leaning crypto-anarchism.

@freemo And that's assuming I'm even understanding what left and right mean.

@freemo Free love and enigma machines, that's sort of my mantra. Teach cryptography from grade school onwards, as part of standard caricula.

@LWFlouisa My instance, QOTO, stands for "Question Others, Teach Others"

@freemo Sounds perfect.

@freemo Are instances themed based on people's interests?

@LWFlouisa Many are, some are general instances, others are based on location.

@freemo I'm kind of wishy washy about trying one geared toward sociolinguistics.

Studying how language changes is a real interest of mine, and sometimes overlaps with my interest in cryptography.

@LWFlouisa I never pick instances based on themes because i can interact with the instance if im on it or not. For me I only pick instances based on moderation policy and features offered.

@freemo What comes to mind specifically, when two people who are both skilled in cryptography experience, when they both have great ideas, one for one-way steganography, the other assymetric crypto, when they have spoken languages that are not mutually intelligible.

Supposedly math is this universal language. But I learn a little differently.

@freemo Tootcafe seems to have more blocked instances than ones not.

Isn't that a little overkill?