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.
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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.
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
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.
@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