The great thing about Mastadon is that you're not actually excluded by being banned from a particular instance, you can go and join an instance that is aligned with your worldview (and as I understand it, still interact with people from other instances).

What do I do if instance A (this is where the person I follow) decides to ban instance B (my instance of choice)?

What if this happens more than once? Should I reregister every month and refollow the same people again and again?

What if I set up my own server and people will decide that some of my toots are not "left" or "progressive" enough?

Well that’s society working as designed I think.

Really? wow, okay. Thank god I'm not part of this society.

> How very sad for you. Someone running a private server doesn't want you coming into their living room and taking a dump on the floor, metaphorically speaking. I'm sure if you look around you can find an instance where sexist views are tolerated, and even encouraged.

I'm not a sexist. I love women which is why I don't want them to be killed in the womb.

I didn't do anything in his living room. He said "we don't serve your kind here", so I left.

OK if that's the rules - fine, but don't then complain about your friends being refused service. We either have freedom of association or we don't.

I don't associate with neo-nazis, neo-confederates, racists, sexists, insurrectionists, kiddy diddlers, and the like. So I haven't had that problem with being refused service. Tell me, is it a problem for you? I can't possibly imagine why.

>I had to leave an instance because the maintainer said pro-life views were forbidden. Didn't matter whether you expressed them or not - the owner had a policy against private opinions.

Reading your own comment history here, I see you self-identify as a "honkler", which is an explicitly neo-nazi, anti-woke political identity. It's not surprising you wouldn't get along on a pro-choice instance, or even be able to refrain from trolling it. I can imagine plenty of private opinions others have that you likely object to, and that you just as likely wouldn't tolerate on your own instance if you had one - which you're free to make, as well as find a community more tolerant to your beliefs.

And that's fine. Freedom of speech means you can have yours and I can have mine, and that good fences make good neighbors.

>And if you support the concept of free association, what do you do when it collides with civil rights law?

If this has to do with a baker and a cake I'm going to be very disappointed. Your lot really needs to find new material.

I'm not a neo-nazi. Or I wasn't when I was doing freaky things with my wife, who is black last night.

> It's not surprising you wouldn't get along on a pro-choice instance, or even be able to refrain from trolling it.

If I had spoken forbidden things, I would have been kicked out. I left voluntarily.

> If this has to do with a baker and a cake I'm going to be very disappointed. Your lot really needs to find new material.

No I don't think we do. That one will serve just fine.

Civil rights trumps freedom of association, and indeed all other rights.

> Civil rights trumps freedom of association, and indeed all other rights.

Wait, I can't ask you to leave my property because I don't like what you're saying? Also, freedom of association is explicitly a civil right.

>I see you self-identify as a "honkler", which is an explicitly neo-nazi

As a Russian who is lost in modern english langauge: does this "honkler" thing has anything to do with https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk? Also a golang fediverse project.

No: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Clown_World

Neither RW nor Wikipedia are reliable sources for what is alt-right, neo-Nazi, or any other contentious term. The terms themselves are largely a matter of opinion, and the sources used to make these determinations don't even pretend to be objective.