Re:PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos
by Shared404 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @08:13PM
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> Large parts of the Mastodon network are filled with porn and alt-right accounts that got banned from Twitter.
Isn't the design of Mastodon such that you can join a homeserver tailored so that you don't interact with those things?
Re:PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos
by zaik on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:21PM
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> Mastodon network are filled with porn and alt-right accounts that got banned from Twitter
I did not notice this at all, even looking at the federated timeline.
Re:PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos
by jeroenhd on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:21PM
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The alt-right servers tend to get defederated rather quickly. The porn usually doesn't show up, but when it does, it does with a vengeance. There's a _lot_ of it, you usually just don't encounter it.
Some services try to capitalize on that (Gab, Trump's Twitter) while others ignore the problem and end up destined to be abandoned by normal people.
Large parts of the Mastodon network are filled with porn and alt-right accounts that got banned from Twitter. Youtube alternatives are quickly filled with conspiracy theories and other content even Youtube doesn't want its algorithm to push. Hell, even centralised services have this problem; DailyMotion is the last real Youtube alternative and these days it's mostly pirated content, from what I can tell.
Until some major content providers switch, which they won't, because they'll lose their income, there won't be a transition to free software. I fear the Fediverse came about 10 years too late to be successful.