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Mastodon back in 2019 had a grand opportunity to set themselves up for success; they made the wrong decision. If they had made the correct decision in 2019; the

Mastodon back in 2019 had a grand opportunity to set themselves up for success; they made the wrong decision. If they had made the correct decision in 2019; they could have in 2020 doubled down on the correct decision during the hunter biden laptop conspiracy theory. Unfortunately, Mastodon will forever remain nothing because of this decision. Mastodon has no nazis, it does have that going for them. https://www.vice.com/en/article/783akg/mastodon-is-like-twitter-without-nazis-so-why-are-we-not-using-it https://www.vice.com/en/article/783akg/mastodon-is-like-twit...

rcfox 4y ago
You refer to some mysterious "decision" they made, but what was it? (I know you've included a link, but it's such a long op-ed with no summary and it doesn't immediately mention decision making, so I don't feel like there's a guarantee of a pay off from reading it.)
- incomingpain 4y ago
  >You refer to some mysterious "decision" they made, but what was it? I tried to keep less specific because it doesn't matter to a great deal. We both lack a tardis and cannot change the past. https://archive.ph/0JFR9 https://archive.ph/0JFR9 I'm not a gab user, I got an awesome username but it's a shitty echo chamber worse than anywhere else. Fundamentally "Gab" forked mastodon because masotodon banned them off the fediverse. But more importantly mastodon made it clear they do not represent free speech and have the ability to remove political opponents. There's tons of speech on GAB and what percentage is 'hate speech'? can you even define hate speech really? It's not all speech on the platform. The correct way to read the blog is they banned their political opponents because they have free speech policies. This was a huge mistake for mastodon. Something they can basically never recover from. One of the persistent issues in political polarization has been labelling your political opponents. Republicans are all nazis?

rcfox 4y ago

You refer to some mysterious "decision" they made, but what was it? (I know you've included a link, but it's such a long op-ed with no summary and it doesn't immediately mention decision making, so I don't feel like there's a guarantee of a pay off from reading it.)

incomingpain 4y ago
>You refer to some mysterious "decision" they made, but what was it? I tried to keep less specific because it doesn't matter to a great deal. We both lack a tardis and cannot change the past. https://archive.ph/0JFR9 https://archive.ph/0JFR9 I'm not a gab user, I got an awesome username but it's a shitty echo chamber worse than anywhere else. Fundamentally "Gab" forked mastodon because masotodon banned them off the fediverse. But more importantly mastodon made it clear they do not represent free speech and have the ability to remove political opponents. There's tons of speech on GAB and what percentage is 'hate speech'? can you even define hate speech really? It's not all speech on the platform. The correct way to read the blog is they banned their political opponents because they have free speech policies. This was a huge mistake for mastodon. Something they can basically never recover from. One of the persistent issues in political polarization has been labelling your political opponents. Republicans are all nazis?