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Mastodon: A Community So Vile They Even Eat Their Own. More Thoughts On Reddit.



Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer.

Mastodon: A Community So Vile They Even Eat Their Own.



Today in Techrights IRC, Roy Schestowitz posted a link to a Gemini Pod.



For those without a Gemini client (emphasis mine):



Why I don’t use the Fediverse



  1. The technology sucks. Activity Pub is half baked, and was rolled out prematurely to create Mastadon.


  2. Mastadon is a Twitter clone and Lemmy is a Reddit clone. I hate the originals. Why would the clones be better?


  3. Mastadon doesn’t work at all without Javascript. Lemmy barely works without it. Puke!


  4. The people there are not nicer than Twitter or Reddit. Their mobs just have different political motivations. Never forget how Wil Wheaton fled Mastadon after getting bullied.


  5. No account freedom. You are stuck on your instance, and if they boot you, you have to start over. In this limited respect Nostr is superior.


  6. AIDS doesn’t cure cancer.


=> /s/Fediverse Posted in: s/Fediverse
=> /u/LittlePrince 🚀 LittlePrince



I agree with this author completely.



It’s hard to find a more outspoken tree hugging liberal hippie than Wil Wheaton and the Cancel Mob even came after him, apparently.



Like most tree hugging liberal hippies, Wheaton is sufficiently vile, that he attacks his own mother and father, in public, which is something that in decent cultures, like Japan, you would NEVER do.



(Parents suffer and sacrifice for their children, only to be publicly impugned by the little snot as soon as they’re old enough to get on the Web.)



Wil Wheaton is vile.



It’s basically,



“Mah parents abused me! They’re the only reason people know who I am and I have money now!”, “Did you know my Dad is such an evil man he saved millions of infants with ECMO?” (Including my brother, btw.) “But he watches Bill O’Reilly!”.



I mean, Wheaton is an idiot. A vile idiot. So vile that he should have fit right in with the rest of the leftist troll mob on Mastodon.



Humorously, The Verge quoted Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon and the Admin of Mastodon dot social which banned me, as saying he was unhappy with how the situation regarding Wil Wheaton was handled.



Fundamentally, these “Social Control Networks” are just infuriating.



On the off chance they have information you sought, you need to back it up, LOCALLY, in case it ever gets deleted.



In fact, when I was looking for a source about the Wil Wheaton Incident, one link was to Reddit. I clicked on it, and the entire post had been removed.



Reddit is one of those platforms for censorship. You post something informative that mods or Reddit doesn’t like, it vanishes. Unfortunately, search engines are starting to index and prioritize Reddit, and then you click on more posts that aren’t there.



The Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive doesn’t always have them either.



Sometimes, some bot went scraping photos on Reddit or something, and they still exist in some spamfarm’s cache.



Is this really the Web we want and deserve? I say it isn’t.



It’s very much not only mob rule, but it’s rule by idiots that are in charge because they own the place, or registered the subreddit before someone else could. So a lot of the time, it’s random malicious idiots. Which are worse than garden variety idiots.



It would be useful if something scrapes Reddit in real time, ignores robots.txt restrictions and retains it indefinitely. If there’s something like that though, I don’t know what it is.



The “New Reddit” even recently got a makeover that makes it heavier and less compatible than ever.



Brave can handle it because it’s written in Web Bundles and other Chrome-ism junk.



SeaMonkey just renders it like Reddit went through a Cuisinart.



In most of my browsers, I have an extension that forces everything to load on Old Reddit and removes the “Get New Reddit” button and suppresses their cookies prompts, but SeaMonkey’s extensions platform is too old for Old Reddit Redirect to work.



Luckily, the Searx.be search defaults to Old Reddit. (Which looks better in all browsers anyway.)



I learned to lurk and backup any information I find that’s useful in text or something locally. Because it has a habit of disappearing later. Bookmarking Reddit and thinking you’ll just come back and refer to it later is bad.



There’s a lot of Web rot, but Reddit is worse than Web rot.



Did I mention I hate Reddit?



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