It should come as no surprise that as Twitter sinks itself that the muskrats are trying to drag everything else down with it. :edgeworth-shrug:
It should come as no surprise that as Twitter sinks itself that the muskrats are trying to drag everything else down with it. :edgeworth-shrug:
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.