Such an important observation!

"Ad-driven social media platforms are willing to tolerate monumental volumes of abusive users [because] hate and fear drives engagement, and engagement drives ad impressions.

Mastodon is not an ad-driven platform. There is absolutely zero incentives to let awful people run amok in the name of engagement."

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

@mike TL;DR: self hosting and protocols over centralized Web 2.0 platforms lets you run your site how you want instead of being at the mercy of ruling class whims

But of course you dumbfucks are going to make it about "le heckin hate speech" like the sheep you are

If decentralized social media was the norm they'd switch from crying to social media jannies to crying to VPS providers, registrars and ISPs.

@Hoss @mike @mrsaturday Then we will make fully P2P social media the norm. Granted ISPs could just block the protocols, but they will be blocking the entire network.