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Comment by yanderekko | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, it's ironic that Twitter is allegedly more "Nazi-friendly" than Mastadon - presumably this "Nazi-friendly" shift will be due to a pullback on the aggressive, centralized moderation of mainstream conservative viewpoints. But Mastadon doesn't have this to begin with! I guess the argument is that within Mastadon, it's easier to create your own filter bubbles that would allow you to enjoy an experience untainted by "Nazis"?

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Your local instance moderators choose are responsible for who their server interacts with. Ultimately this creates many segmented branching networks of federation, and with an appropriate instance, nazis won’t exist in your network.

> I guess the argument is that within Mastadon, it's easier to create your own filter bubbles that would allow you to enjoy an experience untainted by "Nazis"?

This is absolutely the argument.

It seems that for some people, the ability to control your own environment is not enough - they want the authority to control everyone else's environment, to make it impossible for people they disagree with to exist.

Of course, it always starts with Nazis, because Nazis are universally hated and not arguing against Nazis will get you labeled as one very quick. But in order to be able to make it impossible for one group of people to exist, you must have the ability to make it impossible for any group of people to exist. And that's power I would not trust anyone with.

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