The fediverse (Mastodon, Bluesky, etc) culture is so strange to me.
1. Create decentralised social media designed so no one can disrupt your freedom of speech and algorithms don't manipulate you into being stuck in an echo chamber.
2. Build in features like following other people's blocklists so you can censor your feed and trap yourself in an echo chamber.
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Their decentralization is only an illusion. Just like their woke idea. 😂
maybe having an echo chamber, or the ability to exclude, is a feature
It's true too tbh. If your admin stops paying for the server it's gone. If your admin doesn't like something they said, you're banned.
Only thing you can do to avoid this is run your own server. But you can't expect tha
Can't expect the average user to think that's a good onboarding experience 😅
An individual blocking another individual is different from the host or the server blocking entire domain names based on the preferences of the admin not the user.
Basically they've gone full circle where once again the admins decide what they're allowed to see.
Yeah, I understand that, and I agree.
I did not expect that to happen. When I learned about Mastodon, I thought, that anyone who runs their server like that would loose people. So, did the game theory play out differently? Or do the users want it?
I suspect it is the latter.
I say this because one reason I use nostr is the selection of people. Here it's "achieved" by nostr being obscure. Over there they do it by banning.
If the users prefer it, the market will reflect that. Mastodon is still tiny. And you seriously can't expect an average user to setup their own server.
