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> 1. There's no way to discover content. Sure you can search for tag but that's absurdly inconvenient Coincidentally, there's a new directory feature to help w
by AsyncAwait 8y ago
> 1. There's no way to discover content. Sure you can search for tag but that's absurdly inconvenient
Coincidentally, there's a new directory feature to help with just that. Just go onto any 2.7 instance that has it enabled and /explore would list users you might want to follow based on somolar interests, i.e. [1].
1 - https://mastodon.social/explore https://mastodon.social/explore
> There's just so much spam.
Either go to a particular interest instance if you want to see a useful local timeline, or follow people and then look at your personal timeline, which is not really different than how Twitter does it.
> Only now proper moderation tools are introduced
Moderation tools have been pretty robust for a long time.
> This was heavily abused by mastodon.social administrator
Mastodon.social is based in Germany and has to follow local speech laws, which are more restrictive than in the U.S. It also has several moderators, not just the admin. But you can just join a U.S. based instance, which is the whole point of federation.
Now if your content is such that no respectable instance wants to take you, there's still the self-host option, which is quite straight forward with Docker, but perhaps also reconsider why you're getting banned.
- yrf 8y agoThat's a big problem there. Mastodon seems to be a EU thing. The bigger instances should consider hosting in a place with free speech. It makes no sense, imagine if all instances were hosted in China.
- oAlbe 8y agoAre you suggesting there is no free speech in the EU?
- yrf 8y agoThere isn't: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6316567/Woman-correctly-convicted-Austria-calling-Prophet-Mohammed-paedophile-ECHR-rules.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6316567/Woman-corre...
- y4mi 8y agoTechnically, there isn't... But the US doesn't have it either, if you take it literally. Free speech is basically a misnomer. You can only have it in a society if you define the free speech to only apply to some generally agreed upon limits. I.e inciting rebellion, lynchings or similar have no place in society, but is technically free speech in the literal sense
- legostormtroopr 8y ago> Now if your content is such that no respectable instance wants to take you... perhaps also reconsider why you're getting banned. Except, there are multiple "wrongthink" lists that are used to auto-ban entire instances [1][2]. Technical merits of Mastadon aside, the community very much encourages echo chamber behaviour - hell on of the reasons for un-federating an instance is "apparent free speech zone". And to top it off, this is a viral list. If your instance federates with "wrongthink" instances there is a very real chance you'll get banned too - just for not banning the "wrong" people. [1] https://github.com/dzuk-mutant/blockchain/blob/master/list/list.md https://github.com/dzuk-mutant/blockchain/blob/master/list/l... [2] https://toot.cafe/about/more#blocked-instances https://toot.cafe/about/more#blocked-instances
- gregknicholson 8y agoThis is a social problem, only exacerbated by technology. There's no technical solution.