Dave Troy Nov 27, 2022
Experiment: Ayn Rand, yay or nay?
Yay
2.2%
Nay
97.8%
Poll ended at .
Show threadDave Troy Nov 27, 2022

What's sort of interesting about this is that with all the talk of 'decentralization' and the affinity that right-libertarians have for it, Mastodon seems to be attracting a crowd that's fundamentally left-leaning and pro-democracy, with some left-libertarian anti-state sentiment too.

Right now the poll on Twitter is a bit more 'yay' than on here, but that's a function of my followers, too. Will be interested to see where it ends up.

For my part, I think Rand is ridiculous.

Show threadDaniel Schwarz Nov 27, 2022
@davetroy I think that’s likely due to the nature of the people who are jumping ship from Twitter and looking for an alternative right now. Musk fans and right wingers have to be overjoyed at the prospect of the only big social media platform that was *relatively* responsible being turned into Gab. Is there anything in the Mastodon platform that makes it inherently less interesting for right wingers? We’ll see.
Show threadDave Troy 
@dschwarz well, Gab and Truth Social are both Mastodon, so I don't think it's the 'technology' itself, rather the 'decentralized network of hall monitors' trope that's being spread could be affecting how these networks form. Meanwhile the Twitter poll is producing a comparable result.
Nov 27, 2022 at 4:51pmWeb