If anyone has #Soapbox instance recommendations I'm all ears
So long story short I got kicked off of mstdn.social for not liking #BlackLivesMatter and being "alt right" (lol)
This is a key part of what's incentivizing me distancing myself from #Mastodon and refusing to join any new ones. The culture of these instances in general is too toxic and intolerant to accept diverse opinions, even when expressed respectfully. (Note that nothing listed in the notice breaks the rules of mstdn.social, and furthermore the "alt-right" claim isn't backed up by listing any stances of mine that could be deemed alt-right.)
So for everyone who was following me at @realcaseyrollins@mstdn.social, it's been a good run, but I'm moving on. @realcaseyrollins@kafuka.me will be my new SFW main, and @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world will be my new SFW alt.
It'll take me a bit to get things up and running on the SFW alt, but we will soon be back in business. No love lost, stux and the users are still nice, amiable people and I hope to continue communicating with the same users in the future.
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@realcaseyrollins@kafuka.me @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world Is software inheritly ideological? No. But show me another #Mastodon instance that won't ban people for making jokes, being Conservative and not supporting a Marxist black supremacist group that wants to destroy families and I'll consider joining it.
Or maybe not, because fact of the matter is #Soapbox is the superior FE and #Pleroma is the superior backend.
I am out of excuses to consider joining anymore #Mastodon instances, sorry.
@realcaseyrollins @realcaseyrollins@kafuka.me @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world If you search "twitter without the nazis", articles on Mastodon are the first to show up. It's clear that this is what Eugen Rochko wants the Fediverse to be. While I personally prefer Mastodon over Pleroma (mostly due to the interface). I clearly see why people have a problem with Mastodon due to the dev behind it.
I just hope that Pleroma will bring more free-speech instances and by proxy, more diversity of thought.
@xianc78 @realcaseyrollins@kafuka.me @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world Yeah. Thankfully most #Pleroma instances have #Mastodon FEs, so if that's your thing chances are high that you can still rock it.
@realcaseyrollins @xianc78 @realcaseyrollins @realcaseyrollins Give it a few months, and we’ll have a few different UIs that slot in atop Pleroma, like Soapbox, and instructions on how to do the same with pinafore or halcyon. There’s definitely a diversity of thought, in the fediverse, even if some centers of thought server-block others.
@sev @xianc78 @realcaseyrollins@kafuka.me @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world Awesome! I'll keep that in mind, as I have a feeling that after this rant I'll get kicked off of kafuka.me too, as their speech rules are a bit stricter than mstdn.social's IIRC
@realcaseyrollins @realcaseyrollins@kafuka.me @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world I just did some research and apparently, Eugen Rochko was (I don't know if he still is) working on a social credit system like what China has.
I will continue to use #Mastodon but I have ZERO respect for him and will not donate or contribute to the Mastodon project.
@realcaseyrollins @realcaseyrollins Its really fucky, the bannings. They are almost always political — “wrongthink”.
Its terrible, and you miss out on a lot of good folks. Look at say @mewmew at myself, we’re politically very different — but we get along just fine. Politics is one thing, someone being a person is another entirely.
This kind of thing is why I explicitly allowed people of all politics on 
@shebang @mewmew @realcaseyrollins@kafuka.me Yeah! And I'm #gendercritical but have multiple trans friends here (you're one of them lol). Agreeing To Disagree Is Cool™
While yes harassment exists here, there are enough anti-harassment tools here to combat that. Say #Spinster users started harassing you for being trans, you could just block the instance.
Honestly it's getting quite apparent that the mentality propelling the current #boogaloo (Civil War II) was already in the minds of many; "if you don't agree with me, we can't coexist" predates 2020. It's just that now with the lockdowns everyone's too antsy to keep their opinions to the internet and are acting them out in the streets.
It's teen girl antics, really. Never been a fan of intolerant cliques.
Are you kidding me? The Christian instance did not give you a reason? Wow my apologies. I am guessing you found out about an instance that takes you. What was the reason for getting banned, if you don't mind me asking?
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@pookito @realcaseyrollins@kafuka.me @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world I'd recently said some things against #BlackLivesMatter, so that was one of the reasons. I'm guessing Stux likes the group so everyone else on the instance has to as well. 🤷🏾♂️ Also they said at least ten accounts claimed I was "alt-right"...without showing me what it was that I said that was wrong or alt-right. Funnily enough I had been calling #TuckerCarlson alt-right adjacent and blaming #FoxNews for the right's turn to more extremes at the time, too. I'm clearly not alt-right.
IDK who did the reporting, and maybe that's a good thing. I do have my suspicions, but no evidence. Part of it is I'm pretty sure the only reason I got booted was cuz SJWs reed loud enough, Stux was following me for the longest time and didn't give me any sort of warning at all, which is fair considering that I didn't break any of their written rules.
@p says, and i quote, that "maly.io is a good server"
CASEY MY BOY YOU'RE ON THE SERVER LMAO
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liberdon.com has been good so far...
Short of running one's own instance, trust has to be extended at some point.
Are there any good guides to running a Pleroma instace? Not familiar with soapbox.
@realcaseyrollins@kafuka.me @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world Okay, I'll end on a positive note:
I've been kicked off of instances without warnings or reasonings before. Even apparently barred from signing up on the only #Christian instance I'm aware of, theres.life, and the admin refused to tell my why I haven't been able to get the confirmation code (over a span of over a week).
At least the mstdn.social folks had the balls to email me and give me their excuse for banning me. Props to them for that.