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Oh. So Gab and Mastodon are pulling at Twitter from each side. I anticipate that the network effect is too strong. People seem to enjoy the conflict that occurs

Oh. So Gab and Mastodon are pulling at Twitter from each side. I anticipate that the network effect is too strong. People seem to enjoy the conflict that occurs when swimming in the same pool as their political opponents, despite all the talk of echo chambers. The bubbles have to intersect on some platform eventually. This is why I don't think that the successor to Twitter will differentiate based on political ideology, on the first order, at least. You need the perception of a level discursive playing field in order to attract all the sorts of people who are looking to "have it out".

egypturnash 9y ago
Gab? What is... googles oh god its a social network by Pepes for Pepes that we are only hearing about because Google doesn't want to have the White Boy Hate Twitterlike in their store, hahahaha Personally I liked Twitter a lot better before it became the place you could go to get into arguments with racists and Nazis with frog emojis in their display name, and this is one of the things driving me away from it. Having political arguments is not my idea of a good time, and nor is supporting a platform that lets people reinforce these sorts of views at each other or harass people who don't share them. YMMV, I guess. Please go tell an angry racist idiot off in my stead if that's the kind of thing you enjoy. Unless you are one.
drawnwren 9y ago
You've been led a little bit astray here. Mastodon as an entity is apolitical and solves the politics problem by allowing administrators to create 'federations' that can choose to be part of the same network as other federations or not. This means that the network is home to the left, the right, Japanese fetish communities, and whatever else an enterprising admin may have chosen to create. It's more analogous to a mix of twitter and old school BBS's with a bit more connectivity. It's completely up to the admins of each federation how their federation interacts (they get a file permissions like specification) with the rest of the network.

egypturnash 9y ago

Gab? What is... googles oh god its a social network by Pepes for Pepes that we are only hearing about because Google doesn't want to have the White Boy Hate Twitterlike in their store, hahahaha Personally I liked Twitter a lot better before it became the place you could go to get into arguments with racists and Nazis with frog emojis in their display name, and this is one of the things driving me away from it. Having political arguments is not my idea of a good time, and nor is supporting a platform that lets people reinforce these sorts of views at each other or harass people who don't share them. YMMV, I guess. Please go tell an angry racist idiot off in my stead if that's the kind of thing you enjoy. Unless you are one.

drawnwren 9y ago

You've been led a little bit astray here. Mastodon as an entity is apolitical and solves the politics problem by allowing administrators to create 'federations' that can choose to be part of the same network as other federations or not. This means that the network is home to the left, the right, Japanese fetish communities, and whatever else an enterprising admin may have chosen to create. It's more analogous to a mix of twitter and old school BBS's with a bit more connectivity. It's completely up to the admins of each federation how their federation interacts (they get a file permissions like specification) with the rest of the network.