On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 17:11 +1100, Karl Auer wrote: > Heartily recommended if you are interested in generally civilised > social discourse.
Actually it's probably also pretty good if you like hanging out with neo-Nazis, homophobes, transphobes, conspiracy theorists, Trumpists and assorted other right-wing nutjobs. And worse. The thing is that in Mastodon you can effectively and with immediate effect control whom you allow to speak to *you*; others control whether or not you can speak to *them*. These tools are directly in *your* hands, you don't have to ask someone else to do it for you. Server admins also block communications from people and servers that do not meet their policies, and these policies are public information on every server. There is a very widespread "covenant" between Mastodon admins that generally blocks all of the above, and a simple mechanism for anyone to report it if they see it. If for some reason you don't like what your server's admins are doing, you can easily change servers. Or have different personas on different servers (though if you are one of the above, all your personas are regarded as non grata by most admins). So if you like chatting with people like the above, just find a server with a policy that allows whatever variety of unhinged, perverse or hateful discourse you want to engage in and go for it. You will swiftly find yourself isolated in a puddle of like-minded people whose voices are heard only by each other, while the civilised world continues without hearing any of it. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([email protected]) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
