Ross of OttawaNov 2, 2022

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.

Show threadRoss of OttawaNov 2, 2022

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.

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@ottaross this, it just so happens that left wing ideas are based on facts and common decency, so naturally reality has a left wing bias
Nov 2, 2022 at 4:59pmWeb