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Re:Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon by tomatotomato37 on Friday March 22, 2019 @09:34AM (#19462349)
One thing of note is that unlike centralized systems that completely kick them out, this systems merely sequesters them, so they can still talk among themselves and have no reason to actively fight against the system and constantly create new accounts.

Containment based systems work better for everyone involved.

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Re:Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon by username3 on Friday March 22, 2019 @12:02PM (#19463838)
Flagging posts as nazi and letting users choose to unhide nazi flagged posts is better. Twitter has a NSFW flag and lets users view NSFW with a setting.
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Re:Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon by nextlevelwizard on Friday March 22, 2019 @01:38PM (#19464876)
What does flagging someone a Nazi mean? Who decides what is Nazism? If I don't like you because you put your left shoe on before your right shoe can I flag you as Nazi and does that filter them propagate throughout the whole system, so now no one can see your filthy left-shoe-first posts?
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Re:Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon by username3 on Friday March 22, 2019 @03:57PM (#19466292)
Anyone can flag someone a Nazi. The user decides if they trust the flagger. If the flagger false flags, users can ignore the false flagger’s flags.
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