[LINK] Musk and Twitter

[Karl Auer]

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.

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