Just found this article, an excellent read!
"Over the past few years, Mastodon has become the model for a friendlier kind of social network, promising to keep out the hateful or ugly content that proliferates on larger and more centralized networks. Journalists hailed it as “Twitter without Nazis” and for years, it’s generally lived up to that promise. But last week, the social network Gab migrated to Mastodon — and Mastodon’s admins have been forced to deal with the internet’s Nazi problem head-on."
@design_RG I did love that article! I also really really appreciate how it confirmed what I imagined about many instance moderators blocking hate sites and being resistant to incoming traffic to Gab.
I don't however, appreciate how the author ended the article with the dichotomy of the decision of Gab, I don't think there's any downside of discluding them or pandering to any heavily right wing user base.
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@salad_bar_breath @design_RG
1/ Well firstly there is a difference between pandering to the right wing and pandering to racists. And since there are other instances, like todon.no, that tend to cater to the left wing, for the sake of balance there should be one catering to the other side. (There's also a case to be made that Gab caters to everyone by allowing everyone to speak, but mostly right wingers sign up.)
@salad_bar_breath @design_RG Secondly, the upside of including Gab is allowing those on mainstream instances to confront the racist on Gab.
@realcaseyrollins
I admire your courage, if you enter the lion's den and intend to confront it there. Wow.
I did some stealth looking around the periphery, and what I saw dismayed me.
Primitive discourse, manipulation, dangerous things, in my opinion.
I have to leave now, have a morning appointment and so sorry to leave a discussion hanging. But I will be back later and hopefully we can resume.
If people were respectful to each other, differences of opinion could be no obstacle to civilized conversation.
Be back later, guys. Have a great day!
@salad_bar_breath