Ex-Bild editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt
FYI, Julian Reichelt is a QAnon-adjacent chud who is currently at the head of the worst transphobic hate campaigns in Germany, a notorious sex pest, a climate change denier on the payroll of the German auto industry, an alleged cocaine addict and a diehard imperialist ghoul who has been licking the state department's boot for his entire career. Flinging made-up dirt in hope that something gets stuck has always been his usual modus operandi, this combined with his total ideological subservience to the reactionary status quo is how he got to run Bild, Germany's biggest newspaper, for years until his habit of sleeping with interns, promoting them, then firing them once he got bored became too much of a liability as the Axel Springer group whose flagship publication Bild is took over Politico and had to pay more attention to US compliance rules, which are a lot stricter when it comes to being a habitual sex offender in the office. Reichelt is still well-connected to Bild, though, they regularly plug his new outrage machine Pleitenticker.
damn, all these things about mastodon sound bad, good thing i'm on misskey
(this is a sarcastic joke about how the fediverse is formed out of many different kind of software that can inter-communicate, mastodon being only the biggest of the bunch, which, if if you were to idk, own so hard it would have melted and uninstalled itself from all the myriad of servers run by volunteers and hobbyists all over the world, the fediverse would still exist)
This, from the dipshits who brought us the haven for banned CSAM sub:reddit-logo:s, Voat
Mastodon sounds like a great place to go if you want to be siloed and never have any reach. They are fast to defederate and use the block button often. I'm not sure of how many are open to changing their minds.
Being on there about a month now, it's not as bad as I imagined. Basically, avoid the big instances. They are generally (with some exceptions) run by liberals of the most purely idealistic tendency. The kind who think ideas drive history, and therefore by blocking / banning the 'tankies' and 'russian bots' from an internet forum, they are defending Liberal Democracy. Additionally, the large instances simply have too many people on them to be properly moderated, and many times they are blocked by smaller instances first, who don't feel the need to educate every new user why we don't use the R-word. There is a whole grab-bag of different types of mods. Some sectarian, some absentee, some who are process perverts playing Model UN instead of banning an obvious troll. Some are also pretty good shitposters, and don't hold back when talking about the shenanigans.
There are over 10,000 Mastodon instances and thousands more instances of other software compatible with the Fediverse. Getting blocked by a handful of instances here or there is inevitable, but not so bad. Getting banned from r/Communism because you posted on r/GenZedong doesn't make Reddit unusable (it is unusable for other reasons but that's not the point). The same seems to be true on the Fediverse so far. You have to do something truly reprehensible to end up getting blocked by a big portion of the network.
Stressand Effect
The more they talk about it, the more popular it will become.
