That #Guardian article on #Mastodon today has inaccuracies and implicit bias in its perspective.
"While technically anyone can spin up a Mastodon server, most users agree that the network has a left-leaning bent."
This propensity to push everything into right-vs-left polarization is annoying. Masto users seem to have a higher education level on average, and being well-informed, factual, and evidence-based get labeled "left" as if those things are some sort of political position.
As someone once said, "reality has a left bias."
Interesting that the author followed up that comment by pointing out moderators have to agree to “active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia” as if those things were the right-wing political platform (they are sadly becoming overtly so).
Those should be right-versus-wrong divisions – crazy that they can be seen as simple political positions.
Where's the bend?
@ottaross Yeah, I agree the right-left take is a simplification and missing the point.
It felt to me like the journalist was kinda making Mastodon sound sappy, like everyone gets along and is too afraid to assert an opinion.
I don't think people here are left wing. There are left leanings but not exclusively. It's just not full of a-holes like twitter is.
Anyway, that article was at best bland. It's a token article to show the Guardian is (supposedly) paying attention.
@ottaross Personally I'm progressive, but as I understand it the statement "moderators have to agree to active moderation" is just plain wrong. Each server has whatever policies it wants, right?
The *network* may have a lean, but the technology doesn't. Or am I misinformed?
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