Stop reposting in the same community.

Hell if your just someone that wants a private place to upload dank memes and share with co-workers and nothing else under the Fediverse you can create your own 100% private instance.

I know but this is different. This is not social media. I wish the Fediverse and especially Mastodon stopped calling themselves social media because they are not one.

I really don’t know what of the Fediverse made you go “because assholes use it, it means the Fediverse likes it.”

I’m a supporter of the “the community is how its majority is” opinion and in this case the majority is questionable. Sure I can join an instance ran by people I support (not that there are any that I’m familiar with because all of them get bullied by the majority) but it’ll basically be just a group chat with additional features. A true social media should accept everyone who follows the rules imo. That way there can be a real conversation with different opinions. What the Fediverse is doing is just a natural version of Big Tech algorithms.

Yea that is kind of not ok.

Hmm I decided not to interact with the answers a lot as they are personal opinions but yours is very radical so I decided to step in. Please keep in mind that not all people have an ability to buy any kind of expensive setup. Ray tracing is great but it indeed has a severe performance impact and not all manufacturers have efficient hardware for it yet so an ethical and nondiscriminatory way of implementing forced ray tracing will not be possible any time soon. Just something to keep in mind when forming a strong opinion.

It was on topic enough imo because of the words “public good” being present but well there goes the regular Fediverse toxicity.

My comment wasn’t related to the organization. It was about the spirit of the Fediverse and how it imo actually hurts the society.

Unfortunately there’s no other option except for ignorance but I consider ignorance immoral.

From meeting all kinds of people on the Fediverse. The overwhelming majority is what I consider people with highly questionable views and destructive behavior.

If you really don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s mostly tolerance to different opinions and some characteristics such as religion. The funny thing is those people claim to be supporting inclusivity.

If creating a massive toxic alliance, gaslighting and discriminating are good things then yes it is very very good.

Mastodon will never actually get better with the kinds of people it attracts. Financial stability may be possible though.

Alternatives exist but they are not exactly traditional social media so it’s similar to comparing apples to oranges.

Honestly imo people with such views should stay away from the internet, especially if they claim to support respect to everyone at the same time.

Also my country does police disrespect.

I haven’t been on many websites recently so my information can be outdated. Also from what I’ve seen whether you like a moderation technique or not depends on your personal views.

I think we just have very different morals and views. What you consider “free” I consider a disrespectful and toxic place.

I understand the natural drawbacks of the federated system but pretty much all of the instances have the same issues. That means different views are defederated immediately which makes the whole system lose one of its advertised advantages that is lack of a biased algorithm. You don’t need an algorithm if your instance only federates with pretty much the same ones. In fact, it’s probably even worse. This makes any federated system basically only suitable for opinionated closed forums. The only difference is all the same ones are federated which increases convenience and engagement.

There’s a compromise between a controlled social media and a federated system - a self-hostable system without federation support (Revolt uses it for example). One instance will always be the main one but anyone can create their own ones for both opinionated and general purpose communities. However the issue with that is low engagement on the less popular instances.

So ultimately a real social media service that is not a “central dictatorship” is practically impossible.

Oh that too. However I think some websites handle such issues better than others.

I lost faith in Mastodon. The restructuring should enforce EU laws on it which might reduce the levels of disrespect on the platform but it will remain federated which means different instances will always disrespect and hate each other. That’s just how people are nowadays.

A bridge is basically a set of 2 bots. If you send a message on Mastodon, a bot account also sends it on X under your name and vice versa.

There might be some kind of AI or rule based system but likely it is manual. It’s not like they actually have to review everyone. Imo the system is mostly made for not letting spam bots in.

To me it looks like you need to be accepted before you can view the posts. Think of it as a private Instagram account.

I agree that there are no “pure” people. I was mainly talking about ones who oppress religion and opposing opinions (that are not even nazi). Also nice to see some civil-ish discussion for once.