Aral BalkanNov 19, 2022

I’m beginning to see quite a few “this is a positive space, there is no place for negativity here” style posts (especially by newer folks) so I want to hopefully clear something up:

This is also a space to be protected. From fascists, bigots, etc., and also from corporate capture (unless you want to watch it turn into what the greater web turned into. Some of us lived through that once. Would be nice not to again.) Opposing such things—and vocally if need be—is not a negative; it is a positive.

Show threadHermes
@aral I'm new here, and one question I have is how mastodon will protect we legitimate non-hateful users from having to read posts or toots (or whatever they're called) from Russian troll farm users. Those same people who apparently infliltrated Twitter and helped to make it the cesspool of negative comment that it was? Won't they simply come here now and carry on? Using phoney identities?
Nov 19, 2022 at 5:30pmWeb
Show threadAral BalkanNov 19, 2022
@hermes Instance administrators here are usually very proactive in suspending such accounts and the way it’s designed means that it’s much harder to use it in that fashion. Will folks try? I’m sure they will. And I’m sure we’ll adapt accordingly.
Show threadHermesNov 19, 2022
@aral That's somewhat comforting. But it raises another question... what protections are there that these same national, institutional disinformation agencies (and each major power seems to fund them) won't flood the fediverse with seemingly-innocuous servers. In which the "bad guys" control the administration, and hence have the power to shape the dialog?