hi i would like to know what are some good far let mastodon servers thanks no liberals or trolls. Also do you guys know of any good trans mastodon servers.
I second this question but want either a sharkey or pleroma instance
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Currently writing a 38-post thread about why your instance's CoC is actually problematic (I joined yesterday). If you disagree, that's okay! I'll just softblock, hardblock, defederate, and write a callout post. Healthy boundaries! 🌱
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Anyway, here's my lukewarm take that everyone already agrees with. Please boost for visibility. Visibility is change. Change is posting.
CW: capitalism, existence, Tuesdays
#Fediverse #Mastodon #TwitterMigration #Leftist #ActuallyJustADemocrat #ToleranceParadox
Tightly wedding instance hosting to moderation is one of the worst design decisions of the fediverse and what it results in feels eerily reminiscent of the IRC network drama of old. The only remedy i see is decoupling the two mechanisms altogether.
Basically the ideal federated social media would have open board and topic creation mirrored across a dozen sites, essentially infinitychan on speed or a modernized Usenet. Users and communities would be responsible for creating their own posting structure and CSS, that would be uniform under their hierarchy, but could always be referenced or forked from outside. This way you could have fedi-esque echochambers, long-lived topical threads, tumblr-style reblog chains, xitterbrained replyguys and anonymous commenters all coexisting on the same platform and interacting by various degrees.
>>33164What point are you trying to make? Or did you forget to ask chatgpt what your argument actually should be? Can you even read my response?
>>33162Lmao yes, mastodon has a real linkedin vibe to it
>>33171mastodon is funded and owned by capitalists and governments. it is not the oeganic grassroot project it claims to be.
lemmy.ml > mastofed
>>33178>lemmy.mlits just reddit, but with less users.
>>33179reddit without cia involvement and for marxists is a big improvement.
>>33176It never claimed to be "grassroots" you twitter addicted lolbert.
Any open source software or scientific research that exists has relied at least partially on the government for it's development.
>>33178Mastodon and lemmy are software, lemmygrad is just one lemmy instance.
Software-wise Mastodon feels more stable than lemmy, at least in my experience.
>>33181Lemmys preferable to me because the backend is maintained by marxists
>>33181For me Mastodon feels slower than Lemmy
>>33185…Now use your very own brain to figure out if what you're copy-pasting is presenting any coherent point or not.
>>33185yeah, stalinsits using local government grants to create a image board is pretty based kill yourself also for using AI
>>33185Wow stalinist devs. Based, give me your ultratotalitarian authoritarian stalinist 100-million-dead software
>>33187>>33186at least here on leftypol we can state the facts and expose the true nature of the FEDiverse. follow the money. connect the dots. very easy.
>>33189>he thinks that stealing money from a local government program with little to no oversight to make a marxist ideological apparatus machine that is used to post anti-capitalist stuff is badbet you think marx was a lib for trading stocks also, fucking eurolib go vote for harris
>>33190you have been exposed, ursula. its over.
>You want to improve society somewhat? Heh, yeah well that's ironic because you USE A DEBIT CARD!
>>33193No wonder the retard turned out to be a poltard
>>33195oh no! we have a right wing enemy of our democracy here who is spreading disinformation!
>>33197Yes. Now turn yourself to the police. Us, the judeo-masonic-bolsheviks, have won and subverted white western civilization. We control the EU and the USA government. So report yourself to the police immediately
>>33193>>33196Brother you've gotta step your survivalist game up, you still have a functioning autoimmune system and an internet connection. The globalists clearly still own you.
The so-called Fediverse is a honeypot financed and operated by governments and capitalists. Lemmy.ml is run by Stalinists. Stalinists and capitalists are the greatest oppressors in modern human history. They are not opposites, but twins. I have merely exposed the hypocrisy and the abhorrence of the Fediverse, and now the bootlickers are furious. That's all that has happened in this thread. Everyone can form their own opinion.
Aside from that, I'm convinced that neither Mastodon nor Lemmy has a genuine community. In fact, all donations for both projects, which supposedly come from the community (i.e., from individuals), are disguised in such a way that the money appears to come from large organizations or wealthy individuals. The principle: a rich person gives 1,000 people €10 each. These 1,000 people then donate to the project, such as Mastodon or Lemmy. The result: the financial flows are effectively obscured, creating the illusion of a vibrant community.
concerns over funding of mastodon and the fediverse are kinda sorta meaningless since all the software itself is open source. it's network is decentralized and federated. if you want to worry about hostile agents you oughta be wary of specific posters in specific instances instead.
>>33201Dengoids aren't stalinists
>>33201you act like the site being 'stalinist' is in anyway a negative for 99% of people on here, hysterical.
>>33206the site's mascot is an anarchist aka anti-stalinist
>>33207an anti-stalinist anarchist is also known as a redditor or fascist choose your pick
btw I LOVE STALIN SO FUCKING MUCH STALINS THE BEST STALIN #1 NAZI KILLER
>>33204Yes, but the instances themselves are totalitarian dictatorships. The "decentralization" of the fediverse plays practically no role. Ultimately, there are only a few monopolistic instances that control the majority of users. There are small instances, but they are completely insignificant because they have been killed off by the network effect. The argument of "decentralization" is absolutely hollow and deceitful. It's like saying, "Oh, the internet is decentralized! And if you don't like Facebook, you can just go to X! That's freedom!" In the end, nothing has changed.
>>33209>totalitarian dictatorshipsThe person who created that term was in support of aperthied in the USA btw lmao
>>33209You have communists, liberal and fascist lemmy instances
>>33209ur right. stay on x the everything app blaze your glory
btw isn't it interesting, EVERY TIME somone asks here about mastodon instances, nobody gives a recommendation?
>>33214I've long since said goodbye to all discussion platforms, and I have no interest in using any platform where you have a persona. The last platforms I actively used were 4chan and Leftypol. However, I was completely rangebanned from 4chan some time ago and can no longer post there. And I certainly won't be creating a 4chan account, the captchas were getting too annoying anyway. Leftypol is practically the last place I still post. Not because I'm a "leftist" or anything like that. It's the last platform where I can just blurt out a thought as a ghost without a persona. All these identity-based discussion platforms are the same to me. The best thing would be if Leftypol finally shut down. then there would finally be some peace and quiet.
>>33215i recommend x the everything app blaze your glory
>>33217I can see why you keep getting banned from places
>>33209>it's le dictatorshipA dictatorship of the proletariat is preferable to a dictatorship of the bourgeois. The alternative is using twitter / tumblr, and the vibes are fucked over there.
>decentralization (scare quotes)It's a mechanical description
>My instance was blocked by mastodon.art so it's basically killed offYou're the one that wants your instance to be in the HOA archipelago. You'll only realistically be interacting with so many users at any given moment, and the users outside of the HOA archipelago are plenty past that by orders of magnitude. I'm not even sure why you think it's a bad thing that HOA people can set up boundaries like that, it means you don't have to put up with them as a normal person and that you won't have to see ragebait on the global feed.
My main complaint with Mastodon (idk if this is an issue for activitypub in general) is that search is caps sensitive and doesn't merge translations of the same word into a single tag. I.E. if you look up #bird it won't also show #Bird, #BIRD or #とり
>>33221Whatever. Even if Mastodon were really great, it still wouldn't be for me personally because it works on the exact same principle as ALL other discussion platforms: they're identity-based. You can't just be a faceless ghost. And that takes away the carefree spirit that only imageboards offer. Just start writing and forget about the post the next day. But no, instead you have to cultivate your own identity and be nice to the community. Oh no. I will never engage in this bullshit again.
>>33219I've been banned by Leftypol so many times, and my ban is ALWAYS lifted after a few days. Over and over again. It doesn't matter what I do, Leftypol doesn't actually want to get rid of me because I always come back and liven up the board. I think they just want me to suffer.
>>33222that is fair. both types of forum have their downsides. with anonymous forums, one of the disadvantages is the fact that the continuity of conversations can be confused, intentionally or unintentionally.
>>33222btw here is a list of all forums i have ever used actively in my life. not just a lurker, but as an active poster:
squidboards
reddit
twitter/X
newgrounds
raddle
lemmy
mastodon
nostr
bluedwarf
4chan
lainchan
merzbow.tk
privacy guides forum
tarnkappe forum
kuketz forum
discord
telegram
dread
my conclusion: all identity based platforms SUCK. no matter if its reddit, mastodon or dread. IDENTITIES SUCKKKKK!! AAAAAAAAAHHGHGG
>>33225How was your experience in Raddle?
Were you banned from 4chan?
>>33225Maybe you're the problem my guy
>>33222Yeah that's a reasonable qualm to have, one I've seen even highly active users on there express.
>>33226>How was your experience in Raddle?My experience with Raddle was exactly the same as with all other identity-based platforms. There's a fixed set of basic assumptions that you're never allowed to question. Ultimately, it boils down to only ever saying what conforms to the "community consensus," and if you dare to deviate even once, you're the bad guy. Forever.
>Were you banned from 4chan?4chan recently introduced extremely broad range bans. As far as I understand, European users are primarily affected. I only have mobile internet, and since this range ban was implemented, I can't post anything there at all. So I wasn't banned for breaking any rules, but simply because I got caught in the range ban.
>>33229Why do you only have mobile internet? Isn't it slower and more costy than normal internet. I couldn't live without ethernet personally
>>33227Yes, I am the problem. I am the problem because I refuse to be pigeonholed. There are many communities I find interesting and mostly agree with. The problem, however, is that ALL communities operate on an all-or-nothing principle. You can't agree 70% and disagree 30%. As soon as you deviate, even if it's only 30%, you'll be bullied and attacked. That's why in all communities, it boils down to you having to be 100% compliant. That's the great thing about anonymous imageboards: you don't have to put your personality in a fixed box. You don't have an identity, you're simply a transient, identityless thought. You don't have to prove anything to anyone. you simply say what you believe, and that's it. Other anonymous users might attack the post, but they can't touch you.
>>33232just go live in the woods already
>>33233Isn't he drummyfish? if so he already does i think
>>33231My internet usage habits haven't changed significantly in 15 years. Therefore, I don't need super high-speed internet. I don't play modern video games, if I want to play something, I download the occasional PS1 or SNES ROM, which isn't a problem because the files are very small. I have a mobile data plan with 100GB for €20 per month. 100GB is perfectly sufficient for me.
>>33234>drummyfishI recently received a sudden permaban for a bit of flaming, so i thought i could kind of relate to
>>33217, but remembering what i read on this guys personal wiki… Nope, i'm not as annoying as that reactionary faggot!
>>33221That caps sensitivity issue is fixed, appearently. Bluesky however does have that issue. Both could benefit from merging languages though.
even for leftypol this is an exceptionally retarded thread
>>33256/tech/ is by far the worst board on this site
>>33256>>33258i'm like 50% sure i saw this thread originally on /siberia/ and was moved over to /tech/ at some point
>>33268
What would be the point though? Everyone blocks mastodon.social because it's an HOA instance with a spam problem.
>do you guys know of any good trans mastodon servers
conclusion being: ?
>>33336yep thats about right as a transhumanist i can vouch
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