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> Because of censorship and 1 person running the server deciding what's right or wrong for the rest. Because those with many people on their servers having more
by ozyschmozy 3y ago
> Because of censorship and 1 person running the server deciding what's right or wrong for the rest. Because those with many people on their servers having more power to decide what's right or wrong.
I've not used mastodon much so maybe I misunderstood it but isn't the whole point of these federated things that you can simply join a different server if you don't like the moderation of the one you're on? And aren't there a few big servers (like mastodon.social, which i think is the "main" instance?) with pretty unopinianated and light moderation?
> And personally, it's full of transvestites and gay people, who tell you, no rub in your face that they are.
How are they rubbing it in your face? Does mastodon force content on you from people you don't follow? I thought it was a Twitter type thing where you see messages from people you choose to follow?
- angulardragon03 3y agoYour understanding is correct, on both points. The only content you’ll see from people you don’t follow is if an account you do follow “boosts” it (equivalent to a retweet), or if you browse the federated timeline (which shows you a bunch of posts from instances federated with yours). Indeed, if the author you are replying to would like to not see people celebrating their own identity and sense of self, they could simply unfollow these accounts.