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Free Speech according to the idea of mostly left-wing oriented operators of Mastodon instances means to permanently exclude at least 500 instances worldwide from the federation because of "wrong opinions".

It took me more than a week of intensive research to find the part of Fediverse that was locked out by the Federation.

Mastodon, contrary to all praise, is degenerating into an even more censored platform than Twitter and Facebook combined.

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@sophia_sardegna it cannot be "censored" because users can choose any servers and run their own instances. and Mastodon is just a little part of a big Fediverse community which at the moment contains not less than 15000 servers (my count may be not exact, the real number may be more).

@iron_bug

There are always 2 perspectives:

One that addresses a world as it should be and one that addresses a world as it is.

My personal point is that the Fediverse does not deserve the reputation of representing Free Speech when third party opinions are suppressed.

@sophia_sardegna it is. just the term "free speech" is different for every person on the planet. so Fediverse exists in clusters of servers by interests and some irregular connections between them. this does not prevent people from finding like-minded contacts and have their time. this eliminates senseless quarrels, bashing, etc. as an owner of my own server I also may ban separate users if I don't want to read them in my digest line and this is the freedom to read. with freedom to speak goes freedom to listen. and nobody can deprive people of their right to ban what they dislike.
sophia_sardegna

@iron_bug

If I want to block someone, I do it.

ANYONE who thinks they have the right to decide for me what I have to block, or even blocks themself in such a way that I don't see what I want to see, is an infantile, narcissistic fascist who decides arbitrarily and therefore has no idea about freedom.