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This is a really insightful interview with @Gargron, the founder of Mastodon. His main disagreement with the bird app is around contrasting ideas of free speech. There’s a “strange dichotomy,” he says, that makes Mastodon what it is: on the one hand, more decentralized, more democratic, and, on the other—and perhaps paradoxically, if you’re used to the capitalist, top-down model of social media—safer. Worth reading if you want to understand the ethics/philosophy behind this platform we’ve all chosen to use.
@smaran @Gargron I agree with the founder of Mastodon (not a bad name, by the way). It's interesting to see how some people think of freedom of speech as "I can say whatever I want". That's anarchy and abuse of freedom, not freedom itself. Nobody is free in a place where everyone can be abused, insulted and defamed. Indeed it seems that, in general, Europe better grasps the meaning of freedom and human rights for its citizens.
@shanti @smaran @Gargron I don't know much about that but Facebook and Twitter show many worrying signs of an intolerant society. Even a Canadian immigrant can be mocked just for a slightly different English accent in the USA, and when once I asked a huge group of American people studying my language to describe the typical costumes of their country, it broke my heart that nobody thought of the native Americans, like they are not even inhabitants. And it's not the only saddening example.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1191/ku-klux-klan
There have been SCOTUS cases that protected the KKK. This is how come the WBC don't get any problems when they protest gay people's funerals.
(Side tangent: Which language were you teaching?)
@smaran @Gargron great article. Love mastodon. Really disagree w likening the “top-down” model = capitalism. We’ve forgotten that #monopolies are the extremes of capitalism which we rightly responded to w antitrust laws. Small, decentralized, privately-controlled, are all descriptors of #capitalism at its best. When we all have choice and alternatives about. That’s what Adam smith wrote about. Mastodon is a great example of what capitalism is supposed to be.