[SORRY FOR THE WALL OF TEXT - tl;dr Ben Makuch is a massive kuch]
Well, clearly #vice does not like #gab - The title itself tells you all the conclusions the author wants you to take. "Mastodon is sjw software", and "evil nazis are taking it over"
I know that Vice has for a been a publication mostly telling guys to try inserting objects up their ass and calling orange man bad, but since senpai @pookito noticed me I'm gonna suffer the article and do a bit more thorough analysis:
Title and subtitle:
>The Nazi-Free Alternative to Twitter Is Now Home to the Biggest Far Right Social Network
>Gab, which has been used frequently by neo-Nazi terror groups to organize and recruit, is now the biggest node on the Mastodon network.
Gab has basically been frequented by grannies in the past, and then got a good chunk of people that got kicked out from Twitter for violations as soft as telling journalists such as Ben Makuck, who unfortunately hasn't been downsized yet, to learn to code. Journalists however can't believe that a platform can exist where you can write their name and "is retarded" on the same post, so they all smeared it as a nazi platform CAUSING it to get flooded by "le evil nazis" checking it out. Anyone internet-literate can tell most of those people just want to shitpost.
>Mastodon was designed as a decentralized, social justice friendly Twitter alternative that was free of nazis
Mastodon was designed as a GNUSocial-compatible node software, as well as GPL-licensed software, and the FSF itself has already clarified that licensing with the idea of excluding a particular group, no matter how hideous you may think their behaviour to be constitutes a nonfree license - https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/a-roundup-of-recent-updates-to-our-licensing-materials-november-2018-to-june-2019 - if mastodon devs wanted specifically a nazi-free platform then even federating was a fucking mistake, or maybe Ben is full of shit and should be replaced by a less tech-illiterate blogger.
>and harassment
With Laurelai in the fediverse you can bet your ass there's been some of the worst harassment happening just below the publicly visible posts way before any gab faggot stepped in here.
>Gab—which has been tied to the suspect responsible for the Pittsburgh synagogue terror attack
All other sites the guy uses are conveniently missing. I wouldn't be surprised if left-wing propaganda with the message "we will undo whiteness, you can't stop us" is far more likely to be responsible for these wackos losing their shit than having a place to say nigger on the internet.
>The FBI declined to comment specifically about Gab but told Motherboard in a statement that online radicalization through the propaganda of domestic terror groups can lead to real world violence.
Ben probably spent an hour on the phone trying to get some poor schmuck in the FBI to tell him "Gab, specifically, is creating terrorists". This paragraph is so poorly written that I can only conclude that the FBI representative probably mentioned Twitter, Reddit and Facebook by name but refused to mention Gab because he could tell that Ben was dishonestly trying to get an authority to agree with him.
>ISIS was effective in 2013 and 2014 not only because they put out content, but because they were able to build an online community around them.
And because they had massive funding and somehow supply drops kept "conveniently" accidentally landing on their hands. Ironically during the years that Obama and Hillary were in power.
Well, clearly #vice does not like #gab - The title itself tells you all the conclusions the author wants you to take. "Mastodon is sjw software", and "evil nazis are taking it over"
I know that Vice has for a been a publication mostly telling guys to try inserting objects up their ass and calling orange man bad, but since senpai @pookito noticed me I'm gonna suffer the article and do a bit more thorough analysis:
Title and subtitle:
>The Nazi-Free Alternative to Twitter Is Now Home to the Biggest Far Right Social Network
>Gab, which has been used frequently by neo-Nazi terror groups to organize and recruit, is now the biggest node on the Mastodon network.
Gab has basically been frequented by grannies in the past, and then got a good chunk of people that got kicked out from Twitter for violations as soft as telling journalists such as Ben Makuck, who unfortunately hasn't been downsized yet, to learn to code. Journalists however can't believe that a platform can exist where you can write their name and "is retarded" on the same post, so they all smeared it as a nazi platform CAUSING it to get flooded by "le evil nazis" checking it out. Anyone internet-literate can tell most of those people just want to shitpost.
>Mastodon was designed as a decentralized, social justice friendly Twitter alternative that was free of nazis
Mastodon was designed as a GNUSocial-compatible node software, as well as GPL-licensed software, and the FSF itself has already clarified that licensing with the idea of excluding a particular group, no matter how hideous you may think their behaviour to be constitutes a nonfree license - https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/a-roundup-of-recent-updates-to-our-licensing-materials-november-2018-to-june-2019 - if mastodon devs wanted specifically a nazi-free platform then even federating was a fucking mistake, or maybe Ben is full of shit and should be replaced by a less tech-illiterate blogger.
>and harassment
With Laurelai in the fediverse you can bet your ass there's been some of the worst harassment happening just below the publicly visible posts way before any gab faggot stepped in here.
>Gab—which has been tied to the suspect responsible for the Pittsburgh synagogue terror attack
All other sites the guy uses are conveniently missing. I wouldn't be surprised if left-wing propaganda with the message "we will undo whiteness, you can't stop us" is far more likely to be responsible for these wackos losing their shit than having a place to say nigger on the internet.
>The FBI declined to comment specifically about Gab but told Motherboard in a statement that online radicalization through the propaganda of domestic terror groups can lead to real world violence.
Ben probably spent an hour on the phone trying to get some poor schmuck in the FBI to tell him "Gab, specifically, is creating terrorists". This paragraph is so poorly written that I can only conclude that the FBI representative probably mentioned Twitter, Reddit and Facebook by name but refused to mention Gab because he could tell that Ben was dishonestly trying to get an authority to agree with him.
>ISIS was effective in 2013 and 2014 not only because they put out content, but because they were able to build an online community around them.
And because they had massive funding and somehow supply drops kept "conveniently" accidentally landing on their hands. Ironically during the years that Obama and Hillary were in power.
Dude what type of exegesis is this, I mean you made me feel like I was buying a news paper and had to read it for my writing class. You write so many words just to say the same thing I am saying, vice is really bias and do not like #gab. I mean with man. Regardless on how you feel on one side or the other in the political spectrum that was all I said. I have never come across with an article so much hate towards #Gab. Take a chill pill man
>designed to be nazi-free
What kind of retarded interpretation of reality is this