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0 pointsvidarh3y ago0 comments

To me the problems being "on a smaller scale" makes them fundamentally different. On Twitter you're beholden to the moderation decisions of a single company. On Mastodon I'm not. That's a giant difference. The problems are not remotely comparable.

On top of that, once I moved, I found engagement was just way higher.

But the decentralised and open nature is the driver for me with Mastodon. Knowing that I can control my own experience, both in terms of moderation and in terms of being able to mix and match software which suits me (e.g. I plan to add ActivityPub support to my blog and use it for a comment section).

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ilyt3y ago

Okay, but I don't want any wanker to moderate what I decide to watch. Public streams, sure, there are reasons for that, moderate away, but if the solution is "well, you really need to just run your own server infrastructure" that's a shitty solution

vidarhOP3y ago

Then pick an instance which doesn't. Your choice.

denysvitali3y ago

Thanks for your inputs!

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