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Nice review, I will consider some of those things when building sites now. After reading your post and then reading more stuff, it appears that Mastodon is goi

Nice review, I will consider some of those things when building sites now. After reading your post and then reading more stuff, it appears that Mastodon is going to become the Gab.ai for Leftists. Which seems to be ironic in a way. The internet cannot be controlled if it is to remain free and open. Creating censor lists like this here https://github.com/tootcafe/blocked-instances https://github.com/tootcafe/blocked-instances ,is no different to traffic shaping that ISPs do and what the FCC in America has done. Effectively they have created BBS boards with a bit more tech and have isolated them. If this sort of mentality continues we are going to have a segmented internet as a whole, where mega corps rule. Imagine a hellhole like this: -- Connecting to Monsanto ISP -- Connected <<you have 1 hour of usage left>> -- Type "www.reddit.com" -- Coca-Cola DNS, im sorry I cannot resolve that domain for you, please buy another Coca-cola. -- Buys Coca-cola -- Connection to www.reddit.com blocked, it is now under the federated space of GlaxoSmithKlein, who are in competition with the Monsanto Liandri Corporation. -- Goes to connect to www.guardian.com -- Hit with adds for Monsanto weedkiller, and GMO sweetcorn.

pmlnr 8y ago
This is as old of a question as the internet, or as the humanity itself. Not every place or discussion forum is a place to discuss anything or everything; some are thematic and that has to be respected. It's not a problem if someone creates a BBS-like thing for themselves. It's as much of a right as speaking publicly at Hyde Park -though even that has rules: "as long as the police consider their speeches lawful."[1] It is a different issue if people refuse to research other opinions, but there is a significant difference in educating this to be the default approach and between forcefully presenting it out of the blue. [1]: https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park/things-to-see-and-do/speakers-corner https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park/things-to-see-...

pmlnr 8y ago

This is as old of a question as the internet, or as the humanity itself. Not every place or discussion forum is a place to discuss anything or everything; some are thematic and that has to be respected. It's not a problem if someone creates a BBS-like thing for themselves. It's as much of a right as speaking publicly at Hyde Park -though even that has rules: "as long as the police consider their speeches lawful."[1] It is a different issue if people refuse to research other opinions, but there is a significant difference in educating this to be the default approach and between forcefully presenting it out of the blue. [1]: https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park/things-to-see-and-do/speakers-corner https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park/things-to-see-...