Spacedragon Apr 17, 2017

Fascinating dynamic unfolding across Mastodon: instances are dividing into two ideological factions: safe speech, and free speech.

The safe speech instances are likely to start sharing domain-level blocklists (like Adblock but for speech) in the near future, to "curb harassment".

The free speech instances legitimately don't seem to care, and so far, have held much more interesting, substantive and intellectual conversations than the safe speech zones.

What can you expect from me? Free speech.

Show threadMatthew SkalaApr 17, 2017
@wogan I see this as an internal dispute of the steadily shrinking English-language minority of Mastodon. Neither side of it has yet really processed the fact that they aren't still the majority, but anyone who wants a clear view of the situation *must* be aware of that fact.
Show threadSpacedragon Apr 17, 2017

@mattskala That's a good point, though there's a lot more to it than that.

The fediverse has been around sine Laconica (10-ish years), and it's only recently that there's a clash between the safe-space culture from the US, meeting the existing global free-speech culture, in the context of a foreign culture now dominating in user size.

Essentially, this is the new Wild West right now.

Show threadDivanApr 17, 2017
@wogan @mattskala Maybe we should make a blocklist of all non American instances and name it MOAB.csv
Show threadSpacedragon

@Divan @mattskala

If there ever was a good use case for the domain "wall.io", this would be it.

Apr 17, 2017 at 2:53pmWeb