I decided to give Mastodon another shot here recently, I found exactly one promising leftist instance, mastodon.lol. Bills itself as an "LGBT-friendly antifascist mastodon instance"

I watched another user get banned for saying that Azov were neonazis and I got banned for sticking up for them, then as part of his 240V power trip the admin posted a pity thread where he claimed we called him literally Hitler.

The only other leftist instance I saw welcomed all socialists except "authoritarians" so I assume it's either a socdem or sectarian anarchist instance.

TL;DR - Mastodon hasn't changed at all, it's still ran by power-tripping micro tyrants

  • Nicklybear [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I’ve been signed up for that exact instance (Mastodon.lol) for a bit now and have been spending less and less time on it because of shit like that. It’s all sectarian anarchists and Pelosi worshipping libs, and "anti-fascists" who think that Putin is Hitler reincarnated and Azov are heroes. Oh, and of course ML's and Maoists and the like are no different from Nazis according to that instance. I think I've lost more brain cells there than I ever did on Twitter.

    • luther7718 [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Well I fired up my 7 proxies and made a drama post if you still have an account and want to interact with it: https://mastodon.lol/@15October1959

      Yes I am aware of how petty this is

      • Nicklybear [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Followed and favorited that post.

        Eh, who cares. Petty can be fun, like in this case.

        • luther7718 [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          It's been a half hour and the account hasn't been banned yet. I guess if it's still around tomorrow I'll log in and boost the post

          • Nicklybear [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            You definitely should if it's still around somehow tomorrow. I'm honestly surprised that I'm the only person to have interacted with it yet.

          • Nicklybear [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            I just found out what you're referencing with that Mastodon username. Pure perfection.

      • solaranus
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        1 year ago

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        • luther7718 [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          Yeah probably. I feel better about it having said my piece now so I'm just gonna let it go

          • solaranus
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            1 year ago

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