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Yes there are multiple people here, but the general sentiment was negative among most threads. Go ahead and look over any Mastodon thread a year ago or before.
by hunterb123 4y ago
Yes there are multiple people here, but the general sentiment was negative among most threads.
Go ahead and look over any Mastodon thread a year ago or before.
Generally it was dismissed with "oh it's too niche" or "moderation will be too difficult".
People ignored the communities already on it and the tech overall.
Only until people got pissy about Elon running Twitter instead of hedge funds did the general sentiment here change.
It wasn't about the tech, and not even about Elon specifically, it was the Twitter safe space got taken away.
But now hopefully the people who want that safe space will isolate themselves in mastodon instances that block all others and we can all live in peace from them.
- Shared404 4y agoI suspect you may be surprised which instances get islanded off from the rest of the fedi. Or rather, which ones already are.
- hunterb123 4y agoI've been in the mastodon world for longer than the Twitter drama, so I'm well aware. When you block other instances you realize you are islanding yourself off, right? Not the other way around. Everyone is federated until you block, so you are isolating yourself from the norm when you block others. It's not too noticeable as the english speaking instances are small currently, but those who don't want wolfballs and friends, or this or that are more isolated than those who do. It makes sense that those who want to hide views from others are the outliers. Those who want to be open and allowing of diverse thought are more interoperable.
- Shared404 4y agoIf the majority of servers federate with each other and block the same servers, wouldn't the larger group be the "not islanded" group? My argument is that if a server behaves in a way that the majority of large servers block it, then it is islanded, not the others.