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In case the phrasing of the reply you're talking about doesn't clue the reader in to the fact that it's a sorry attempt at bait, if you look at the (three) replies on the account that made that post, one of them pings like a hundred people with a GIF of a kitten captioned with the N-word.

That is tasteless IMHO as well, but please, let's just stop and keep it about him here.

The person writing that, at the day someone died no less, should be expelled from any sane project.

Ah, they're writing it ironically, and on Mastodon. Then they should just be expelled from society.

I thought Mastodon was supposed to be a better Twitter because of all of the federation and everything.

Not better, just decentralized. The same humans can be in either.

It is not better in the slightest exactly because the people on there think they're better

There's nothing preventing someone to run a white supremacist instance of mastodon (it's also what Truth.social is). But the good thing is that other instances can de-federate so their junk remain confined there.

>There's nothing preventing someone

Isn't that the whole idea? The freedom to have it be whatever users want?

That's the point, yes. And as such it makes no sense to blame mastodon for that. The fact that the moderation of that particular mastodon instance is happy with it makes me never want to interact with this particular instance in any way, and that's another freedom mastodon give to its users.

If you think de-federating and filterbubbling up is a good thing, you're part of the problem.

You're confusing two different things:

- “filter bubbles” that are automatically enforced by whatever opaque algorithm made to boost “engagement” (and ads revenue)

- and the ability for people to join independent forums that are moderated locally (and from which they can move if they dislike the moderation policy). People joining groups where they feel well is not “filter bubbles”, it's how the internet worked before some people tried to rule it all.

It's a pretty obvious troll.

He's been trolling regularly for a week or so.

And it's even more sad just how much flagrant discrimination has come back in full force in just the past decade.

Sincere "What the hell is wrong with you." to him.

>how much flagrant discrimination has come back in full force in just the past decade.

never truly dies. Social media is simply doing the equivalent of sweeping it under the rug. Meanwhile, the rug itself becomes another corner of the internet to fester until they learn to get around the "popular" social media filters.

The cycle just repeats until the core problem is fixed. Sadly that core problem is societal.

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