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Twitter's censorship created the problem of echo chambers. Twitter was never full on hostile toward conservatives, it was more to do with specific issues/narrat

Twitter's censorship created the problem of echo chambers. Twitter was never full on hostile toward conservatives, it was more to do with specific issues/narratives. Conservatives looked at mastodon. Mastodon was worse than twitter, conservatives never made it to mastodon. Mastodon was hostile toward conservatives and this was an unfortunate large mistake. Conservatives built alternatives like parler or gab. But they failed because they were echo chambers. >We’ve been steadily working towards the ultimate goal of providing a viable alternative to Twitter since 2016, and have proven the scalability and resilience of the platform through organic growth over the years. Ironically many of these alternatives like gab stole Mastodon code to operate. Which is very interesting because why couldn't conservatives simply join the mastodon network? As an up and comer you would not only be best suited to invite anyone to your platform. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork-of-mastodon/ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork... White supremacists? >listing only such servers that commit to standing up against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia. Mastodon will never be in the spotlight because they have fallen into the same echo chamber problems. Gab supports free speech? That must make them racist transphobes!

DoItToMe81 5y ago
Yeah, Mastodon and most of it's clones are run by some of the worst sewage runoff from Twitter, who rampantly defederate and block any 'other' who encroaches on their echo chamber. I wish it wasn't the case, but sadly it is.
- incomingpain 5y ago
  > Yeah, Mastodon and most of it's clones are run by some of the worst sewage runoff from Twitter, who rampantly defederate and block any 'other' who encroaches on their echo chamber. I wish it wasn't the case, but sadly it is. I too wish it wasn't the case. They were uniquely capable of taking the position that Elon is now taking. They could have become a top player and decentralized social media. It could have been fantastic. How unfortunate that Mastodon was so hostile and basically eliminated their chance of being a top contender.
rchaud 5y ago
Looking at Gab and having your one takeaway be "free speech" is akin to looking at Russian news coverage and thinking "wow they really support the troops".
- incomingpain 5y ago
  > Looking at Gab and having your one takeaway be "free speech" is akin to looking at Russian news coverage and thinking "wow they really support the troops". Like their tag line is: A social network that champions free speech, etc etc. Your complaint isn't that they don't support free speech but rather the echo chamber and toxicity that entails. That's the real fear of what Elon is about to do. By allowing conversations to happen it will break the echo chambers of twitter and the left fears that greatly.

DoItToMe81 5y ago

Yeah, Mastodon and most of it's clones are run by some of the worst sewage runoff from Twitter, who rampantly defederate and block any 'other' who encroaches on their echo chamber. I wish it wasn't the case, but sadly it is.

incomingpain 5y ago
> Yeah, Mastodon and most of it's clones are run by some of the worst sewage runoff from Twitter, who rampantly defederate and block any 'other' who encroaches on their echo chamber. I wish it wasn't the case, but sadly it is. I too wish it wasn't the case. They were uniquely capable of taking the position that Elon is now taking. They could have become a top player and decentralized social media. It could have been fantastic. How unfortunate that Mastodon was so hostile and basically eliminated their chance of being a top contender.

rchaud 5y ago

Looking at Gab and having your one takeaway be "free speech" is akin to looking at Russian news coverage and thinking "wow they really support the troops".

incomingpain 5y ago
> Looking at Gab and having your one takeaway be "free speech" is akin to looking at Russian news coverage and thinking "wow they really support the troops". Like their tag line is: A social network that champions free speech, etc etc. Your complaint isn't that they don't support free speech but rather the echo chamber and toxicity that entails. That's the real fear of what Elon is about to do. By allowing conversations to happen it will break the echo chambers of twitter and the left fears that greatly.