Hexbear's PR account isn't on the list. Gotta step it up folks.
deplatform the left
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Danny Devito, the FBI
Oh. :data-laughing: noo pls stop, the left would hate it if you banned the FBI, liberal celebrities and capitalist government agencies :dont-laugh:
danny devito is the trash man, a true working class hero I would have you know.
who the fuck is scraeming "log off" at my house. show yourself Coward. I will never log off
Yeah I see that now, I don't really use the Twitter but someone here posted about him announcing his departure a week or two ago.
purge the left by removing all the good twitter accounts, forcing leftists to go somewhere that doesn't suck
Mastodon has some issues but in general, the bigoted "free speech zone" instances tend to get ostracized and de-federated fairly quickly. Mastodon itself should be viewed as a tool. Everything depends on who's hands it lies in, and what purposes it is applied to. Mastodon (like Lemmy and Hexbear) has been found useful by the types of people who are driven off mainstream social media either by bans or overwhelming harassment. This includes political groups like Anarchists and Marxists, as well as the right wing extremists who ended up on Gab (technically a Mastodon instance). It includes a lot of oppressed groups like LGBTQIA+ and people of color.
The main problem with Mastodon is that the largest "flagship" instances try their best to be "general interest" and have fairly Liberal moderation policies. They prohibit obvious bigotry and intolerance, but kinda fall into the trap of "both-sidesism" when it comes to political violence. There are many (thousands) smaller instances, each of which set their own policies and blocklists. Setting aside the reactionaries, some are focused on tech news, some are focused on LGBT issues, some are focused on art and music, some are leftist sects, some are far less sectarian.
The other issue is that if you are looking for updates from your local transit system, or a journalist you're interested in, they very likely aren't on Mastodon - though this is changing as the bans and hate speech pile up on Twitter. More and more news organizations are beginning to create accounts and some individual journalists are far ahead of this trend, while many others are lagging behind.
In short, it is the least bad alternative. The only alternative that has a compelling pitch to explain why it isn't going to get bought up by some FAANG or VC firm within the next five years and belong to the next Elon Musk in ten. Due to its decentralized and largely non-profit nature, it also seems better suited to avoiding state pressure to install national security goons the way Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and TikTok all have been forced to.
I've been having a blast with the other folks on the hexbear instance :sicko-hexbear:
Kinda? I've heard mixed views but a lot of it is federated infighting which as leftists we're kinda famous for? Tbh it's better than Twitter, but using a bathroom stall to post shit takes is better than Twitter...
Did they just grab a bunch of people's follows? These are bizarrely scattershot. GV_YMCA? GarfieldScreens???
Did they just grab a bunch of people’s follows?
It would be perfectly in character for this dweeb to base this entirely on the follows of some dude who made a milkshake joke about him.
While we're at it, let's bring in the firing squad
:milkshake: :milkshake: :milkshake: :milkshake: :milkshake: :milkshake: :milkshake: :milkshake: :milkshake: :milkshake: :milkshake: :milkshake:
https://twitter.com/JPtheTattooer/status/1596177434516549633
Not only is Andy Ngo a petty little nerd, he is also amazingly bad at OSINT for somebody who wants to be a journalist.
Apparently Bob Odenkirk is on the list for some reason
IIRC Bob Odenkirk is pretty cool, though I'm surprised David Cross didn't also make the list considering he was (in)famously a chapo guest
Oh yeah, I remember him and Felix getting into an argument about Louis Farrakhan
If you're not on the list you're officially to the right of Joe Biden. I don't make the rules.
I doubt that would happen don't you have to be good at this to make effective propaganda
You're forgetting that we live in hell, so it'll probably just go ahead and happen. Ron Desantis press secretary?
I guess I can understand someone of Andy Ngo's stature being incredibly intimidated an absolute sheer hulking mass like Devito.
As laughably broad as this list is, its existence combined with the millions of phone numbers and emails leaked from Twitter is quite concerning.
