On small mindedness and shitty Fediverse politics. Long Post.
I came across a post by sheer serendipity a few minutes ago, while looking at a user profile in a different instance.
It mentioned a hashtag that was suggested for using on reporting and recommending blocking or banning other Fediverse instances. It uses the hash "fediblock" -- and I avoided using the # in this case to not have this post added to it, unintended.
Reading thru I found mentions to various instances, and reasons people had for suggesting their banishment. Was suprised by finding a mention to a Pleroma instance where I have joined, and also a mention that "Qoto people had alts there". 😎
The poster then proceeded to criticize the Pleroma admin and even his personal project called Husky, a fork of the popular "Tusky" android mastodon client.
Husky's goal is primarily to provided support for advanced Pleroma features like Rich Text Formatting -- which Pleroma users can use in their Toots, via html tags, MarkDown or even BBcode.
While I see this as a sign of progressive thinking, and the willingness to take on a project, the author of the critical post was adamant that Husky would or could allow Gab users to use it for their own needs; which Tusky has blocked on their own client.
I have informed the admin and developer of this, and he was aware and didn't mind.
It does bother me, the small mindedness I see in such petty fediverse politics.
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On small mindedness and shitty Fediverse politics. Long Post.
@design_RG Sadly there is a lot of this sort of people. Most of the mastodon are whitnighting against violations they see on FB or twitter. As such they are usually quite assertive about their politics.
On small mindedness and shitty Fediverse politics. Long Post.
@realcaseyrollins @freemo One good thing came out of this (which I felt at first really spoiled my day). We got a good conversation started here, which will be on record for others to find and read later too.
And I did some extensive reading -- finding again the The Verge article that I had enjoyed (being really well written and rich), plus other articles that I branched into from links and add to my understanding of the whole Mastodon project, it's history and how things are.
Got another really interesting one that I finished just now - and that touches on the important questions regarding the way the project is lead. This one: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/mastodon-fediverse-eugen-rochko/
This article references two pieces I had read previously (and are important in the historical comprehension aspect), published on Medium.com. These were written by Allie Hart.
https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616
and a later one: https://medium.com/@alliethehart/mourning-what-now-10964cce22a8
On small mindedness and shitty Fediverse politics. Long Post.
@realcaseyrollins @freemo
And after reading all of these articles I had linked above (some read in previous days, and now collating into a better understanding), I went back to scanning the hashtag, and came across what's got to be the most out of control block list I have seen so far.
Really, I mean.
Who else is Blocking mastodon.social --- and accusing its admin of not doing a proper job of controlling access and posts from the instance? Yep, she is, this girl
Queen Bee's full list is at : https://stardew.city/about/more#unavailable-content
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On small mindedness and shitty Fediverse politics. Long Post.
😂😂 Certain folks here are quite entertaining.
I will take a look at the article you mentioned. They might even make for a good video!
On small mindedness and shitty Fediverse politics. Long Post.
@freemo @design_RG From what I hear, many left because of harassment that wasn't addressed by #FaceBook or #Twitter, so they might be looking for more moderation, not less.
The #Fediverse does seem well design, as a platform for safe spaces. Sites with big blocklists can create a kinder and gentler community.