@lxo Other than that, I can see Gargron's point: he makes the rules on #Mastosoc, but there are thousands of other instances, any of which may have rules more to someone's liking.
You don't land on a site and immediately tell them you don't like the way things are run. Get acquainted with the history and the admin / moderation teams first. There may be sensible and defensible reasons for the current status.
@sullybiker You see, you're taking a longer term view. Most people I see posting online are only thinking "this will make it harder for people I don't like to post online or to organize their events", while I'm looking more at #$CORPORATIONS can coordinate their activities in opposition to a smaller entity like a #Fediverse site".
It's distressing, because people aren't seeing the precedents that they're allowing to be set.
I don't know anything at all about #Parler, except that it is supposed to be a site for right-wing folks. But what happens when the political climate changes and suddenly #MastoSoc is being kicked off of every possible service (along with the cloud of instances who hold their same views as mastodon.social and its userbase)?
I hope that Venezuelan folks will quickly set up dozens of locally-hosted instances, but also that people living there will rapidly disperse among both new and existing instances.
Before ads about “no Nazis” brought harassers over from #Twitter and #Tumblr, the #Fediverse simply did not have this. It was get along or ignore (block) the person.
What's with the accounts with bot-like behavior (subscribing to a number of people but never posting anything) that keep appearing on Mastodon.Social? Are #MastoSoc admins aware of them?
@dude Yeah. When #MastoSoc disappeared from the timelines, I was impressed with how much less noisy it got. A few interesting accounts also disappeared, but the improvement is very noticeable.