Re:A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon
by iudqnolq on Saturday November 19, 2022 @06:04PM
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There are strong incentives to tolerare bad moderation. Given the choice between cutting off their users' friends and letting something slide moderators will often let things slide. This bears out in practice: There's a socially centralized network of sites that all federate with each other, and some loons and Nazis on the periphery.
The effect is similar to if a centralized service randomly chose which of a few tens of moderation policies to apply every time they get a report. That's a big disadvantage. You lose because you see content that pushes past what your chosen moderator would prefer, and you don't see content that your chosen moderator would allow.
If Mastodon provided something nice in return I'd consider it, but they consider that disadvantage as their main advantage.
Can you describe that? Mastodon is Federated, much like any other decentralized service you have the right to reject or block content from certain users or sites. That's your privilege as a paying administrator of a Mastodon instance. If you disagree with the way a particular server is being run, you can find others who agree with you or host you own instance for less than the price of Twitter Blue.
This is the case with IRC, Matrix, I2P, even Bittorrent. None of these protocols are living in "the worst of both worlds", they're merely taking their architecture seriously and deliberately choosing not to build their software like a product. If you take issue with the social coordination layer of Mastodon... maybe social media isn't for you?