These are actual examples of what I was shown as the reason behind the bans.
Making fun of CNN and TikTok, criticizing the law in Illinois, discussing that Facebook and Reddit are nasty and spy on people.
And insulting the King of Mstdn.social.
Disrespecting the moderator was a mild taunt regarding them being too dumb to figure out what fake news is despite me always citing “the news” from a place like NPR or CNN or something that I was referring to.
Don’t use Mastodon. It’s a waste of your time.
The servers are banning each other and it’s turned into a bunch of nasty SJWs on one side and their counterparts, the Nazis and Child Pornographers on the other.
There’s nowhere for an anti-dogmatic Atheist Left-Libertarian with a sense of humor.
Dogma traps people into beliefs that are absolutely insane. And they never justify those beliefs with any evidence. No, things have to be this way “because they’ve always been that way”.
Some people got together a long time ago, thousands of years before people understood anything, and when living to 30 made you a village elder, and decided it was so.
"There’s nowhere for an anti-dogmatic Atheist Left-Libertarian with a sense of humor."Or in politics, instead of religion. When a political theory fails to produce the desired result, you just double down on the theory. If your criminal justice reforms are followed by a 40% spike in violent crime in Chicago, yet you continue on as if they were helping.
When people complain about the crime, you say “You have to go along with this or else you’re racist!”. Okay, nobody said anything about that. We look at what you did, and what happened and go “Wait. This isn’t working. Why don’t you go and enforce the laws you have before you come back and tell me you want more?”
Or finance and tax policy. “What did you do with the money I already gave you?”
The government, “Oh, we have 75,000 rotting empty buildings and we’re testing cocaine on beagle puppies!”
When you’re skeptical of church, the government, and “accepted” economic theories, all of which have ruined the world by any and all objective reasoning, you are “evil”.
"You’re the one with the problem. If a lot of people are wrong, you must be wrong, because there are more of them than you."You’re the one with the problem. If a lot of people are wrong, you must be wrong, because there are more of them than you.
At the heart of the matter, this is why Social Networking, even if it’s not some multi-billion company that runs ads everywhere and gives the FBI backdoors, possibly can’t actually work.
What’s going on in Mastodon, the “banned server list” is public, and that’s a “feature” of the software, they decide what you get to see _for you_, is that they’re building a Tower of Babel where it may be open source, but it’s an echo chamber of fools and idiots.
Like “stux”.
I think I’ve decided that I refuse to be muzzled by the Speech Nazis just so I can have an account somewhere, which may well get trashed anyway because the moderator disagrees with something I said, which wasn’t even offensive. ⬆