#freespeech #mastodon

Free Speech according to the idea of mostly left-wing oriented operators of Mastodon instances means to permanently exclude at least 500 instances worldwide from the federation because of "wrong opinions".

It took me more than a week of intensive research to find the part of Fediverse that was locked out by the Federation.

Mastodon, contrary to all praise, is degenerating into an even more censored platform than Twitter and Facebook combined.

https://gist.github.com/yetzt/32c754fbe87009f8c161f40541147c70

@sophia_sardegna it cannot be "censored" because users can choose any servers and run their own instances. and Mastodon is just a little part of a big Fediverse community which at the moment contains not less than 15000 servers (my count may be not exact, the real number may be more).

@iron_bug

There are always 2 perspectives:

One that addresses a world as it should be and one that addresses a world as it is.

My personal point is that the Fediverse does not deserve the reputation of representing Free Speech when third party opinions are suppressed.

@sophia_sardegna the world has no the way "it should be". there's one good saying: the world is free from your views on it. the idea is that everybody has his own "ideal world" in his imagination and people will never come to agreement which world is better. so it's basically useless to try to do this. Fediverse gave to people a tool for communication. it's very versatile and flexible tool: many platforms, many clients. many interfaces. so everyone can choose to his taste or even write his own realization. it's open source and it's absolutely free for everyone who wants to develop[ something. so Fediverse is just the reflection of the real world where people are separated in different circles and groups and they communicate with each other in the way they prefer.

@iron_bug

This is fine and should be communicated exactly this way, instead of creating the impression that everyone is actually connected to everyone else, as is currently the case.

THAT is mendacious to the max and disguises the infantile egoism that is leading the Fediverse.

Briefly:

NOTHING in the Fediverse is better than on Facebook,Twitter & Co. - unfreedom is merely better hidden, better camouflaged ...

@sophia_sardegna once again, as I said above: Fediverse has nothing in common with proprietary networks. it is not centralized and not controlled by any single owner or something. and it's not commercial, which is the most important, there's no paid posts and ads.

@iron_bug

It is controlled by the operators of the instances who arbitrarily decide what you get to see.

And this under the guise of care that pretends to protect against hate.

Hate can then be anything that the respective instance operator defines as such.

This already begins with dissenting opinions, which are suppressed in this way.

Whether it is closed source or open source - the result is identical for all those who do not follow the framing of the masses.

@sophia_sardegna you can run your own server and have your own rules.