Notification sent to me:
"mastodon.online reported "
.. some Russian propaganda shit...
Seriously- the hypocrisy of reporting people is getting old. It's like you insist on bringing the negatives of Twitter and other platforms to Mastodon. I get 'reporting' content to one degree or another when it comes to content that could get an instance shut down (maybe even spam), but even that is often only for those hosting in extremist regions like Europe, China, and the Middle East. Better solution: Stop hosting your shit there.
We believe in freedom of speech here and don't censor minority opinions on this instance including ones we don't like or agree with nor propaganda from political adversaries including the "left", the "right", and others except possibly where it may be something that is illegal and would threaten the instance's existence.
I realize 98% of the population can't think for themselves, but come on. This is just getting old. If you can't be an adult ... I don't know what to tell you. Go back to your echo chamber and just block our instance I guess.
@mr_penguin
>It's like you insist on bringing the negatives of Twitter and other platforms to Mastodon.
Literally the creator of Mastodon dubbed it "Twitter without the Nazis" and also wants you to forget that the entire network is actually the Fediverse and Mastodon is just a specific software package for running an instance. The whole idea was that smaller servers are easier to moderate and people would only federate with servers that share similar rules.
Yeah, the server I'm using is also running on Mastodon, but there is a reason why the servers that don't block you are running something else, like Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, or GNU Social.
@xianc78 Yea, I'm aware of this. It's sad, but true. It's also true that the fediverse isn't just mastodon and there is a protocol behind it. Mastodon is just the most feature rich variant. I don't think point any of this out changes the dynamics or point I was making and I doubt you intended it that way either. It's just sad. I'm not going to worry too much about it though. The point of the licensing behind free software has largely been to undermine the barriers that prevent people from working together on common goals independent of their other political agendas. To that end the left, even if not extreme left and libertarians have worked together.
@mr_penguin
>Mastodon is just the most feature rich variant.
That's not true. Pleroma (and it's forks) have emoji reactions, shoutbox, BBCode and LaTeX formatting, WEBP support, and multiple front-ends.
The only reason I'm using a Mastodon server is that this is the only gaming related server (Mastodon or otherwise) that isn't block happy.
And I wouldn't recommend switching to Pleroma or Misskey as it would probably break federation (notice how Mastodon URLs have the @ symbol in them while Pleroma doesn't). Though if you want those features, Qoto's Mastodon fork includes some of them.
@xianc78 I haven't used Pleroma recently, but last I used it there were feature parity issues with comparison to Mastodon. I don't have an issue with Pleroma itself, but it was deficient in some way the last time I played with it.