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
Almost the law of the internet
We got an exception here
Can't believe the admins won't let me say racist transphobic and intentionally divisive things :angery:
That's why I said almost :soviet-heart:
lol no. the only reason this site is "good" for our purposes is because the sitemods act tyrannically and without accountability. there's a reason there aren't many "democratic" online communities. the closest is Wikipedia, which operates as an adhocracy with elected bureaucrats who, in practice, are the users with the most time and devotion to the project.
they were literally way better when they were called webmasters, ironic isn't it