I'm thinking loudly here (while typing and observing what thoughts come out first), because I just learned, that #gab will toss their software away, fork #Mastodon, port some data and bring it up as a "new gab". This move is propably intended to help them federate their servers and to re-enter the #app stores. For example: #Toot! (the app I use for Mastodon) has a setting "Filter awful servers" (explaining that term as "white supremacist server", precisely "Currently, only gab.") which is turned on by default. But by turning it off, the app can be used for gab.
So obviously there will be other counteractivities from the Mastodon #community (besides #filtering within the apps), one of which is most propably massive (transitive) #blocking within the #federation. In https://qoto.org/@goto/102222761174420470 I recently (just two weeks ago) wrote: "I‘m new to Mastodon and haven‘t seen any discussions about free speech yet. But I understand that Mastodon is all about the ability for instance administrators to block entire other instances. It’s all about block chains which are aggregated lists of instances to block passed around between administrators. It’s all about rules about active moderation policies that instances have to implement if they want to be listed on joinmastodon. Effectively those rules include which block chains to use. Essentially Mastodon is all about strategies of forcing free speech instances into isolation. It’s all about collective censorship, because instances give identity and users become invisible in the Fediverse if their instance are put in those block chains due to the activities of other users. Mastodon is about all this being it’s core feature. It has no centralized moderation but it inherently creates social tribes by massive overblocking. It is a tool and a culture designed to quiet people in order to give some the protected space that Twitter can’t and isolate the others into “free speech” instance clusters."
Those were my first thoughts two weeks ago. Today, in the light of gab moving to instances of a forked Mastodon, all these things suddenly seem more like a feature to me than like a defect of the Mastodon culture. Because as a progressive person with an open mind I am well aware that free speech is not possible in infrastructures that allow #fascist #propaganda of that kind. I know, it's hard to draw the line, but it's clear that gab is beyond. (In my eyes, so is almost everything #Trump says, which obviously seems less bad to a lot of people and illustrates the argument that it's hard to draw the line).
Bottom line is: I don't know what to think anymore. Writing this didn't help me at all. At least not yet. I can't get a clear grasp on what I'm feeling about propaganda #censorship. It seems vitally important. And totally wrong at the same time.
@Mikel65 Um welches Addon geht es denn hier? Exodus?
Das lag an Tootdon. Kann die App nicht empfehlen. Mit Toot! ging das canceln. Tootdon kann auch keine Toots > 500 Zeichen. Toot! schon. Aber Tootdon hat (zentralisierte) Suchserver, also noch einen Dienst dahinter. Das ist halb gut und halb schlecht.
Eigentlich ganz nett hier. Also Fediverse an sich meine ich. Aber überzeugt bin ich irgendwie immer noch nicht wirklich.
Diese ganzen Klugscheißer auf Twitter. Ich halte sie nur noch schwer aus.
Ich bin nicht schwanger.
Ich habe jetzt einen #Rant-Account, aber ich sage Euch nicht, wo.
Alter weißer Mann #Seehofer ist gut drauf und macht Späßchen, damit seine #CSU-Kollegin #Klöckner (eine Frau!) nicht mehr mehr Aufmerksamkeit bekommt als er (#Nestlé und so), und damit seine Partei bei #NieWiederCDU angemessener berücksichtigt wird, und alle fahren drauf ab. Der eigentliche Skandal hier ist, dass dieser Gefährder immer noch in der Regierung ist, und das gilt vor wie nach diesem #Video. Die Aufregung jetzt um so eine Pillepalle wie dieses putzige membildende Videochen macht diesen Menschen- und Verfassungsfeind eher noch antifragiler, so dass er am Ende wohl erst mit #Merkel stürzen wird. Seine Geisteshaltung zur #Demokratie war jedem bekannt und seine Politik ist und war asozial, rechtswidrig und pervers, aber angemacht wird er erst jetzt, wo es ein lustiges Video gibt. Ich prangere das an.
Kühnert! Kühnert! Kühnert!
Ich möchte 70 Devices mit Alexa kaufen. Nur um die Schwachmaten zu ärgern, die das für Abhörwanzen halten.
Vielleicht sollte ich doch linksradikal werden. Das erscheint mir so langsam der einzige Ausweg zu sein.
@doliu666 @SecondJon I‘m new to Mastodon and haven‘t seen any discussions about free speech yet. But I understand that Mastodon is all about the ability for instance administrators to block entire other instances. It’s all about block chains which are aggregated lists of instances to block passed around between administrators. It’s all about rules about active moderation policies that instances have to implement if they want to be listed on joinmastodon. Effectively those rules include which block chains to use. Essentially Mastodon is all about strategies of forcing free speech instances into isolation. It’s all about collective censorship, because instances give identity and users become invisible in the Fediverse if their instance are put in those block chains due to the activities of other users. Mastodon is about all this being it’s core feature. It has no centralized moderation but it inherently creates social tribes by massive overblocking. It is a tool and a culture designed to quiet people in order to give some the protected space that Twitter can’t and isolate the others into “free speech” instance clusters.
@NHonigdachs@norden.social Nein, aber da lernt man, die Beckenrandschwimmer zu mobben, die sowas tun. *flausch*
I love that I like it.
Jodel braucht irgendwie auch keiner.
Ich kann mir die ja nicht alle merken. Aber Schäfer und Gümbel habe ich schon mal sitzen.
Mehrheiten sind unnütz.
Inutile donc indispensable.
Hier wird #unleserlich digitalisiert.
It is time.
Joined Jun 2019
