399 sats \ 8 replies \ @cointastical 8 Nov 2022 \ parent \ on: Daily discussion thread
Why two servers?
The whole point of federation was that you could be on any one server and follow users from any other server and reply / DM / etc regardless of what server they were on.
Anyway, that "mind blown" phase will wear off. Censorship still happens. There are blocklists. Your server might even block BitcoinHackers.org, denying you from even seeing the discussions occurring there.
Personally, have high hopes for nostr, but Twitter is horrible (yes, it still is) so any migration away -- even if to the flawed design of Mastodon, I see that as a positive move, for now.
i was on mastodon.social already and i also joined androiddev.social
i join multiple servers as each server feels like a subreddit.
on android dev.social - my toots will get more visibility when users click on their local server timeline to see all toots on that server.
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Censorship still happens. There are blocklists.
Blocklists aren't censorship tho.
Imagine you're on nyc timesquare and holding a speech. Censorship would be police emprisoning you or putting tape on your mouth. A blocklist is the equivalent of people not listening and going away. That's not censorship.
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When the Mastodon server I am on has blocked your server (likely automatically using a shared blocklist), I will not see your toots (posts), and you will not see mine.
That most certainly is censorship (by the admin of my Mastodon server that I am using).
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by the admin of my Mastodon server that I am using
lmao you said it yourself out loud that we're talking about private citizens. Private humans can do whatever they want, everything else is communism 😂😂
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I think you are confusing the concept of "free speech" with the concept of censorship. It doesn't have to be a government that engages in censorship for it to be called censorship.
Yes, an admin of a Mastodon server has the right to do that. So they have not violated my right to free speech. But they have engaged in censorship, and when that occurs I begin to take steps to discontinue my support.
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you're confusing it lmao 😂😂
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How so?
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Lol
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