The underlying misunderstanding of anyone who looks at anything Fediverse, not just Mastodon, is that it’s like any of the centralized options. It’s not.
Yes, you can connect and follow other people on other serves, yes their political ideas, no matter how extreme, will be there. But it’s no different than X/Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, or anywhere else in that regard.
Where it is different is that it’s something you or I can use to build our own community with our own ideas and leanings, and connect with or disassociate from those we don’t want to.
Its a more interconnected version of the old Forum softwares, or Content Management System blogs like WordPress or Drupal.
Didn’t bother reading the whole thing.
The underlying misunderstanding of anyone who looks at anything Fediverse, not just Mastodon, is that it’s like any of the centralized options. It’s not.
Yes, you can connect and follow other people on other serves, yes their political ideas, no matter how extreme, will be there. But it’s no different than X/Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, or anywhere else in that regard.
Where it is different is that it’s something you or I can use to build our own community with our own ideas and leanings, and connect with or disassociate from those we don’t want to.
Its a more interconnected version of the old Forum softwares, or Content Management System blogs like WordPress or Drupal.