The Fediverse is better than regular social media

Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media by bjt2n3904 on Monday January 18, 2021 @07:24AM (#25821061)

The author raises Donald Trump as an example, I'll counter with Wil Wheaton's experience on Mastodon[1].

It's great that there are moderation teams that will accept inflammatory and controversial characters. But if the userbase doesn't believe in freedom of speech, it doesn't really matter if the platform does.

1 - http://wilwheaton.net/2018/08/the-world-is-a-terrible-place-...

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Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media by honest_guy on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:51AM (#25822298)

Wil had the ability to block people, mute people, mute words, mute regex, mute entire instances... If he didn't agree with the moderation of the instance he chose, he was free to find another or even start his own.

Nothing about how the userbase acted restricted his ability to use the platform, publish content or engage with content in any way. He just got annoyed by it, then got banned by an instance admin.

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Re:The Fediverse is better than regular social media by tomtomtom777 on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:27AM (#25821547)

In the Fediverse, it would make sense to use government servers whose moderation rules are overseen by the legislative branch.

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