Mastodon

Hmm, Twitter used to at least try before. Advertisers don't like Eat Fresh! Running below a nazi tweet. There are at least some market forces keeping them at bay, which is why their social platforms keep failing.

Nothing Beats communities that are willing to oust bad elements, though

Lemmy world just removed their non-discrimination clause and one of the admins is (poorly) justifying it in a thread about it. I wouldn’t cheer quite yet.

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!!

Yes, but those instances are normally the ones that get blocked by half of the web.

This is why, in the case of Mastodon, it's best to join a smaller instance so it can be more easily moderated.

you can go to /instances to see a list of other connected and blocked instances.

I just did, and noticed a bunch of supposedly-federated mastodon instances, but in reality I've never seen them in my 'all' stream.

Are they not supposed to show up there?

On desktop there should be a small "about" link in the bottom left, from which there is a "moderated servers" dropdown menu where you can see defederated servers. I don't see anywhere to view the servers you ARE federated with, but if it's listed at ~~Mastodon's official website~~ (whoops, I actually meant this)it's probably in.

I don't see anything on the official Masto app, but that app is just missing a ton of functionality in general.

Hell yeah

sound

Hey there's a Naz- BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG

also if you look at the main thread not on hexbear, you can see them complaining about lemmygrad being nazis ☠ im glad we have filtered idiots out of this instance

Just commenting to say I feel the exact same way. I am curious if mastodon is something worth getting into?

I would describe it as "what if Tumblr decided to have the layout of Twitter?" The interface looks and feels like Twitter, but since there's no algorithm people will post the most raw shit. My feed is one part guinea pig videos, one part OSR Dnd memes, one part people learning to code and sharing their early janky work with pride, and one part entirely from one queer anarchist TTRPG dev struggling with medical bills and the fucked USian Healthcare system.

The most trouble you'll have is deciding which instance to settle down in. Self-hosting is really not reasonable for Mastodon, since the local feed is pretty important.

One indication is that it isn't blocked by many other instances. You can see that (and other info) on this page: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

Since I is decentralized, it is upto the intances. There is no central authority to eject an instance. Rather other instances individually block the instances they find objectionable to their own criterion.

At basic its that. Inpractice moderation federations and coalitions etc. have formed among instances of "we maintain joint blocking list and any of us can suggest new additions to it".

Due to this one can get ejected from rather sizeable swath, if one one the moderation federations puts one on block list and that is pretty much as far as an "you have 24 hours or we boot you". You get booted from all the instances part of that federation/coalition.

Plus stuff like just sources/authors trusted by various instances. "If this guy puts an instance on their published black list, we block. So far that guy has done good job with his list". Ofcourse instance can at any point decide to not trust that list author anymore.

So there is no one "how mastodon does it". Infact this is the one area where "on what instance are you" matters. Since how your home instance decides to do moderation and blocking, that is how your blocking happens. Plus ones personal additions on top.

Mastodon has a moderation action feature, where one can see listing of what instances and user have been blocked or other moderation action taken. There is explanation field there also for moderator to say "why" but obviously that is upto instance on what their policy is on how exacting their moderation documentation policy is.