@auerbach @MoonMan
Isn't reviewing the policies of the instance admin part of the process of picking an instance? I'm with @Elucidating in that the isolation is a feature.
I mod on several subreddits, and I think that the ability of each community to set their own rules and is a workable model. Being able to say "nothing even remotely transphobic is allowed and I'm the final arbiter" protects my users from BS under the banner of "discussion".
@auerbach I think segmentation like that is a feature people want. They come here eager to escape the excess and oppressions of fully connected networks.
There is a strange idea that Twitter's model is what we need or want and I am expressing doubt. It sounds smart, but upon experimentation I think it's wrong.
Most people afraid of "censorship by the graph" are not mad that censorship exists but that in fact they might be in the minority when it all shakes out.