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The Fediverse did take off. Then large numbers of influential people got banned by randos and realized how much better and reliable (non-profit or not) corporat

The Fediverse did take off. Then large numbers of influential people got banned by randos and realized how much better and reliable (non-profit or not) corporate censors are.

egypturnash 6mo ago
...for them.
BugsJustFindMe 6mo ago
Banned for what?
- 3689023 6mo ago
  For selecting the wrong instance when you created your account. "Defederated", effectively the same thing.
officeplant 6mo ago
>Then large numbers of influential people got banned by randos Given the state of other social media. The randos were right to ban them probably.
gzread 6mo ago
How can you be banned from the fediverse?
- thombles 6mo ago
  I understand your pedantic point but let me give a realistic reply. If your account, or the account of somebody you like corresponding with, happens to be on an instance that falls into disfavour (not uncommon in my time there) then server bans come out and conversations become broken, even between parties who had no knowledge of the overarching drama. Good luck even understanding it if you aren’t a techie.
- rmoriz 6mo ago
  Every server admin can ban your account. You can’t move a banned account. You lose everything. I was banned from mastodon.social because I dare to criticize the socialist regime of the former GDR on Germany‘s Independence Day.
  - holgerschurig 6mo ago
    Well, some of the non-centralized social media is quite left-wing. If someone favours the SED or other parts of the ex-GDR regime (like FDGB etc) then it's IMHO already bordering on left extremisms. After all these guys enslaved a hughe population to make people do their biddings. If that is not extreme, I can't say. That said, if you insisted that some "Germany's Independence Day" existed, then it's perhaps that what got you banned. Germany was never really a colony. Not of UK, not of Spain or Portugal, or not in newer times of Russia. Many countries that were a colony of them, or just annexxed, have an independence day. Germany doesn't --- the last time it was partially colonized, in roman times, there was no Germany. Perhaps you mean the reunification day :-)

The Fediverse did take off. Then large numbers of influential people got banned by randos and realized how much better and reliable (non-profit or not) corporate censors are.

egypturnash 6mo ago

...for them.

BugsJustFindMe 6mo ago

Banned for what?

3689023 6mo ago
For selecting the wrong instance when you created your account. "Defederated", effectively the same thing.

officeplant 6mo ago

>Then large numbers of influential people got banned by randos Given the state of other social media. The randos were right to ban them probably.

gzread 6mo ago

How can you be banned from the fediverse?

thombles 6mo ago
I understand your pedantic point but let me give a realistic reply. If your account, or the account of somebody you like corresponding with, happens to be on an instance that falls into disfavour (not uncommon in my time there) then server bans come out and conversations become broken, even between parties who had no knowledge of the overarching drama. Good luck even understanding it if you aren’t a techie.
rmoriz 6mo ago
Every server admin can ban your account. You can’t move a banned account. You lose everything. I was banned from mastodon.social because I dare to criticize the socialist regime of the former GDR on Germany‘s Independence Day.
- holgerschurig 6mo ago
  Well, some of the non-centralized social media is quite left-wing. If someone favours the SED or other parts of the ex-GDR regime (like FDGB etc) then it's IMHO already bordering on left extremisms. After all these guys enslaved a hughe population to make people do their biddings. If that is not extreme, I can't say. That said, if you insisted that some "Germany's Independence Day" existed, then it's perhaps that what got you banned. Germany was never really a colony. Not of UK, not of Spain or Portugal, or not in newer times of Russia. Many countries that were a colony of them, or just annexxed, have an independence day. Germany doesn't --- the last time it was partially colonized, in roman times, there was no Germany. Perhaps you mean the reunification day :-)