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Took a look at mastodon.world out of curiosity. Total conformity of belief on the entire front page timeline. Maybe it’s another one of those Mastodon instances

Took a look at mastodon.world out of curiosity. Total conformity of belief on the entire front page timeline. Maybe it’s another one of those Mastodon instances where anti-capitalist social justice is the approved dogma, and dissenters are banned? Seems to be a lot of those…

yosito 3y ago
The beauty of Mastodon is that you can set up your own server if you don't like how someone else runs theirs!
- Arn_Thor 3y ago
  A sort of “safe space”, if you will
- xigoi 3y ago
  And then you lose the benefits of federation.
kstrauser 3y ago
I run such a Mastodon instance. Go build your own and compete with me for users if you think there’s a demand for it.
jbm 3y ago
Sorry to see you are being downvoted for making an observation. I have been looking across various Lemmy instances and I recall seeing one or two that was cyberpunk-based or technology-focused in their local streams, but far too many have the "smug American Liberal" [1] style comments that made me leave Reddit [2]. Simply spinning up another community is not a quick fix either. Concern trolling means Centrist communities simply do not last, as they eventually get overrun by extremists of one kind of another. It's far, far too easy to take a complex argument and have it dishonestly re-interpreted in a negative way as a a one line meme in public communities. Weeding these people out is far more of a challenge than banning violent remarks, racists and child abusers, as well-meaning people will inevitably misunderstand. The solution to this is small private communities and group chats with people you trust, personally. You won't get the hit from having constant content to consume, but it's not as bad for you; getting in the door is the real problem. [1] https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberal... [2] Signing up for an account because the defaults are crazy is not a viable solution
- vorpalhex 3y ago
  A community is like a garden. You can weed it aggressively and cultivate only certain things, or do nothing and let it go wild. I have found communities that cultivate for good discourse seem to end up the most balanced, but also attract lots of enemies.
jochem9 3y ago
Federated social media is currently predominantly housing innovators (maybe already some early adopters? One can hope). Innovators tend to look forward and are very open to change. With that mindset it's not hard to see how painfully obvious it is that capitalism isn't sustainable, while we absolutely need to move to a sustainable future. What that sustainable economic system looks like is obviously still unknown, hence lots of discussion.

yosito 3y ago

The beauty of Mastodon is that you can set up your own server if you don't like how someone else runs theirs!

Arn_Thor 3y ago
A sort of “safe space”, if you will
xigoi 3y ago
And then you lose the benefits of federation.

kstrauser 3y ago

I run such a Mastodon instance. Go build your own and compete with me for users if you think there’s a demand for it.

jbm 3y ago

Sorry to see you are being downvoted for making an observation. I have been looking across various Lemmy instances and I recall seeing one or two that was cyberpunk-based or technology-focused in their local streams, but far too many have the "smug American Liberal" [1] style comments that made me leave Reddit [2]. Simply spinning up another community is not a quick fix either. Concern trolling means Centrist communities simply do not last, as they eventually get overrun by extremists of one kind of another. It's far, far too easy to take a complex argument and have it dishonestly re-interpreted in a negative way as a a one line meme in public communities. Weeding these people out is far more of a challenge than banning violent remarks, racists and child abusers, as well-meaning people will inevitably misunderstand. The solution to this is small private communities and group chats with people you trust, personally. You won't get the hit from having constant content to consume, but it's not as bad for you; getting in the door is the real problem. [1] https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberal... [2] Signing up for an account because the defaults are crazy is not a viable solution

vorpalhex 3y ago
A community is like a garden. You can weed it aggressively and cultivate only certain things, or do nothing and let it go wild. I have found communities that cultivate for good discourse seem to end up the most balanced, but also attract lots of enemies.

jochem9 3y ago

Federated social media is currently predominantly housing innovators (maybe already some early adopters? One can hope). Innovators tend to look forward and are very open to change. With that mindset it's not hard to see how painfully obvious it is that capitalism isn't sustainable, while we absolutely need to move to a sustainable future. What that sustainable economic system looks like is obviously still unknown, hence lots of discussion.