If you think that by “toxicity” I am referring to moderators protecting their communities, you are sorely mistaken. That’s a feature, not a bug.

I got accused of being transphobic and banned from an instance because I said that hate towards trans people is a dead cat argument.

Good, you showed up in a trans-inclusive space and used right-wing jargon (coined by Boris fucking Johnson) that dismisses their testimony on their own lived experiences as being “shocking” and a “distraction”, when they know full well that their rights and their lives are on the line. Sorry you didn’t get a chance to correct the record on the fact that you were ignorant on the severity of the issue, but if you’re still publicly complaining about being banned on other uninvolved instances, I’d say that they made the right move.

I prefer allowing hashtags over site-wide search. People can use hashtags specifically when they want their post to be associated with a specific search, rather than letting people search for specific words and phrases.

Site-wide search works way better for communities structured the way Reddit or Lemmy are structured, since people can easily run afoul of different moderation policies, and get themselves banned from communities for bad faith interactions. You have no such protections on a microblogging service.

My experience with BlueSky has been that it is better than Twitter because it is smaller and doesn’t cater to the far-right.

BUT…

It can become extremely toxic very fast because they implemented the same poorly executed features Twitter did that fucked things up. In fact, it’s way worse than that…

The two features they copied from Twitter that hurt them the most are site-wide search and quote posts. Site-wide search enables people to “namesearch” or to monitor keywords for issues they want to fight about. Quote posts are a well understood “dunk mechanism”, that largely encourages dogpiling.

As for being free of a central algorithm, that seems good, until you see that there are tons of community algorithms you can subscribe to instead. Now there are algorithms for things like “anti-Zionist posts” and “pro-Israel posts”, which not only let people find their preferred echo-chamber, but also provide trolls access to exactly the groups of people they want to argue with or harass.

These algorithms can be built to detect certain hashtags and phrases, or they can just be big lists of accounts like a Twitter group. There’s no telling when you might show up in one of these algorithms or why.

As a result, if you say anything less than agreeable about any issue, there’s a chance you’re going to hear from a bunch of accounts you’ve never met before, regardless of what side of an issue you are on, or how extreme your view actually is.

I don’t recommend it. It’s a pro-profit company that seeks to be a wholesale replacement for Twitter. AT Proto federation is a complete joke, it’ll never expand if it doesn’t have a flagship open source server. They’ll give up on it just like Twitter did and just be another centralized, toxic, microblogging community.

Mount an e-ink display with a rotating slideshow of different images on your car until they have a record of your car having thousands of different bumper stickers.

Eh, Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah all have the right to exist, and to defend themselves. But we have to define that pretty strictly.

Carpet-bombing Gaza isn’t defense.

Slaughtering music festival attendees is not defense.

Indiscriminate bomb planting and destination is not defense.

Shooting up a train station is not defense.

Bombing hospitals and aid trucks is not defense.

I draw the line at deliberately or recklessly killing civilians.

It’s hard to believe, but Martha ends up doing a lot of collateral damage in this one.

I suppose there’s an argument that supes aren’t really “good guys”, but that traditional good vs. bad dichotomy isn’t really the point of the show.

Oh wow, you mean a shitcoin was really a scam? What amazing journalists these are. What next, will they expose the wetness of water?

Also, what the fuck with that comment section? It just reaffirms that Odysee is YouTube for Nazis…

You are surprised that the darkweb chat client has Nazis on it?

I think the “even” in that quote adequately implies that…

“X” in Chinese is pronounced “sh”, so I approve.

You can’t let Nazis exist and expect democracy to hold.

A ban is incredibly hard. Not impossible, but hard.

Not in Germany. Spreading Nationalist or Nazi-adjacent views is a crime in Germany. the AfD not only should be banned, but many of those those involved in it should be arrested and face criminal charges for spreading Nazism. It’s literally just a matter of enforcing the law.

And even if, it won’t solve the actual problem.

It’ll solve a large part of the problem.

A great way to cut their votes in half would be educating the population so they understand that protest is good but voting for fascist scum is not.

Germany is extremely highly educated. If you want to send a message to Nazis, start throwing them in prison until the rest get the message and fuck off.

This is a wild admission. Not only does it show that Telegram completely betrayed all of their users, but it also reveals that they know about all the terrorism and child porn channels on their service, and deliberately didn’t delete them.

For anyone wondering why the mods removed this for “incivility”, the original comment said:

Fuck hamas, fuck hezbollah, fuck Iran, fuck netanyahu.

I don’t support Israel, asshole. I support peace. If you endorse terrorism, you are diametrically opposed to peace.

Their hatred of Israelis. That’s the only possible excuse for supporting the deliberate slaughter of civilians (including women and children).

If you’re mad at Israel for doing it, be mad at anyone doing it.

Resistance.

They killed women and children. Your support for that has been noted.

This happened in Tel Aviv, not at an illegal settlement. They killed teenagers who born in Israel after the Nakba, and only hold Israeli citizenship, and cannot in any capacity be considered a “Colonialist” (sp?).

They also killed a woman holding a baby.

You fuckers are deranged if you support this kind of violence. You’re either against war crimes, or you’re for them - there’s no middle ground. Fuck you.

Just to clarify, you endorse randomly slaughtering Israeli civilians? Because that’s what this attack was.