Seems there's a figure that the establishment hates even more than Trump: Bernie Sanders.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/bernie-sanders-unveils-anti-endorsement-list-of-billionaires/
Guy leaves fediverse because people are offended and snowflakes
Response: block more people
You canβt make this shit up πππ―π
No more need to argue that Gab is garbage
You all know it
Come with me if you want to post
freespeechextremist.com
Or keep trusting the plan (pic related)
@poetgrant@fosstodon.org I definitely agree with the sentiment of what you stated. I wish you would reconsider as it will further yield the #fediverse to those people. Still I respect your choice. I hope to see you back π
@fireglow
Thanks bro.
I want everyone happy. The problem with that goal is that people on either extreme feel the other doesn't have a right to be happy, and left to themselves.
@terryenglish
Free speech is when you can say things other people donβt like.
Thereβs nothing free about the exercise of speech that is approved.
@terryenglish @fireglow
My problem is that the *latest* person to give their opinion on me is always assumed to be correct.
That's one hell of a bug.
@terryenglish @fireglow
That's the other bit: Dude was subtooting talking about how "this guy doesn't know instance blocks exist OMEGALUL"
Dude's goal seems to be "I will never ever see anything I find detestable", and I'm saying "You may have to see it one time, before never seeing it again."
If that's unreasonable, that person's gonna have a super hard time functioning in society.
Oh boy, here's where I piss off the other side and have nobody to talk to :(
In the past 5 years, I've learned that some users want choices abstracted from them. That, of itself, is their choice.
It's why I think the list of "global" blocks for an instance should be public. It's one of the things you compare when you "shop" for a place to make your Mastodon account.
If Joe Blow wants their feed curated, more power to them.
@fireglow
Well and the dude calls me racist and all the rest while saying "white people this" and "white people that" and more than anything I'm confused, assuming I'd missed something.
If it really was "if user.bigot { dont_federate};" I'd be all for it, but the gotcha is always the corner cases, and that'd require some serious advances in AI
The whole storm started when I slowly tried to bring dude to that conclusion
@terryenglish
@fireglow @terryenglish
I also think, for people like that (and corporate users too, for compliance reasons), 'federate ONLY with instances I allow' definitely needs to be an option.
Instance Admins are users too.
The frustration is from the blanket assumption that I'm not at least trying to look out for dude's interests, just because I'm Irish.
I have moved to terryenglish@blob.cat so please follow me there.