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Mainly I'm interested in the two fediverses, as a reflection of society.
On Twitter it seems Musk is trying to cater for both on one platform. Interesting.
don't mistake this as a nitpick, but this is just your opinion on what the fediverse is. not everyone comes here for the same reason as you.
sharing any space means getting along with your neighbors. if you're pissing off the established culture of whatever server you're joining, that's on you: maybe join a community that's more aligned with you next time. if you're pissing off your neighbors on a different server, it's reasonably healthy for them to cut ties with you. if this bothers you and you want to remain neighbors, then present yourself to them as the type of neighbor they would want. that's just what it means to be in society.
> Mainly I'm interested in the two fediverses, as a reflection of society.
there's definitely _way_ more than two clusters/rifts in the fediverse. on the political front, i'm guessing you haven't encountered the anarchist servers yet, at least (maybe because they're less interested in engaging in the overplayed left v.s. right fights).
I was on one of the most prominent of those.
Like I said, going fedi/masto was an experiment for me. Now I know I need my own server or stay out of there.
I'm not aware of other clusters btw.
However, in this case I kind of understand the moderators response.
You might consider yourself a "critical thinker" but these examples of opinion are coming straight out of Kremlin troll factory. If I were you, I would give a good, long consideration to the sources you follow.
For example, raising Iraq, Libya, Afganistan or Vietnam of examples of "inconsistent EU foreign policy" in regards to arming Ukraine displays an extremely skewed and uninformed view of politics and history, and the sole reason for a such a muddled argument can only to be to undermine the western support for Ukraine.
Forceful banning in general is not nice but if your actions are perceived to be those of a paid troll I understand why some moderators might confuse you for one.
Like a Nigerian Prince email, certain opinions have been seen often enough to know that no good is going to come of engaging in it.
Anyone is free to post whatever their server's policy allows. Every server is free to enforce their written or unwritten policy. If your type of content does not align with a server, you need to find a different server. Depending on your content ideas, you might need to host your own.
No server is required to accept posts from any specific server. There are/will be servers that are isolated islands of content that no other servers want to interact with. This isolation is freedom respecting.
They banned me for punching the owner in the face.
I'm not referring to Mastodon/mastodon.social here, but a platform that's similar in nature. I wouldn't mind the fediblock police as much if there were to be some engagement on any actions (preferably good faith conversations). One thing I learned is that on the fediverse, one could be banned for no offense, with no warnings and no support whatsoever. It's almost no different from losing one's Twitter account or Google account, except that for the latter you can cry loudly on HN or another platform and possibly get some help. On the fediverse, one day your account works and the next day it could vanish without a trace. No responses from the admin (usually even the larger instances are run by a single person) and if there are any responses, they take weeks or months.
The various server/platform instances (including the flagship ones) may not have clear policies for moderation and may cover things up with short and ambiguously worded terms.
But were you blocked for this opinion or just "shat on"? If you get censored then I'm not sure what the point of an alternative social platform is. We need to talk these issues through somewhere.
Only then we supported the US.
> You are assuming that the underdog is always in the right here.
I do not assume anyone is right. I understand that in geopolitics "might makes it right". I do not pick sides either. I just do not think my govt should piss off Russia by supporting Kiev: my problem is the shitty policy of my govt.
And oh boy did they have some good propagandists ready to to teach us all how bad Russia is. Tax payer's cash put to good use /s
If you want to live in a heavily-moderated place and you'll blindly accept while you are fed what the latest ever-changing Truth is (even if it contradicts what came previously, even if it contradicts logic, reason or scientific understanding), then go wild.
I don't agree with parent's takes, but calling them "stupid" is needlessly derisive.
Some people don't like this, that shouldn't be seen as a Bad Thing.
Then they came for me, and there was nobody left to defend me
The benefit of the fediverse is exactly that any moderation or blocks do not stop your speech - no matter if it's actually abhorrent or just unpopular with the wrong people - it merely lets people opt out of listening to you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CatsStandingUp only allows cats standing up, and the only text message allowed is "Cat."
You could run a purely technical community and say that anything non-programming related is offtopic and not allowed.
You could aggressively minimize drama. Controversial subjects are not allowed. Please post some pictures of your cat and talk about the weather.
Really the options are limitless.
Consider HN. Try to post a thread of puns here, and you will be flagged. Do it often enough, and you will be blocked. That is a style of moderation.
Consider Reddit. Post pun threads there and you'll likely be heavily upvoted instead. That is a different style of moderation.
To take more extreme examples, there are fediverse instances that consider racism to be ok, and there are instances who don't consider it ok but won't block other instances as a matter of principle, and there are instances who will block whole instances if they don't moderate racism. Those are all styles of moderation.
You have a choice in which rules are right for you. You might want a highly curated environment (like HN), or a more freewheeling one (like Reddit), or a near total free-for-all (like 4chan). Which one you pick may determine who else are willing to talk to you, because some dislike eachother - whether justified or not - enough to not want to talk to each other. If I want an instance that blocks people who like dogs on sight, I'm free to do so, and you're free to consider it an idiotic policy and not join my instance.
Nothing stops you from having more than one account if you want a mix of environments who don't get along.