Mastodon - "Decentralized" Twitter Knockoff & Rat King Breeding Ground

[Old Wizard]

Mastodon is a new "social media" site that is essentially just Twitter, excluding the free speech and easy accessibility that makes Twitter so popular. Naturally, it's attracting rat kings left and right.

It's worth mentioning that the moderators are complete emotionally unstable troons. And on top of that, the rules are vague and completely up to the mod's individual interpretations, as stated by the website's creator.

General Population

In the words of Mastodon's creator, the site is occupied by "predominantly queer/furry/leftist", which sums up the problem with the website fairly well.

Spoiler: Casual Mastodon Users

All of the scum that was banned from Twitter for sending death threats to people they disagree with on politics now reside on Mastodon. Supporters of said rabid leftist "activists" have also migrated to Mastodon, citing the "lack of Nazis" (read: centrists and moderate right-wingers) as one of their major motives. Vice wrote an article about it, which can be found here.


Notable Members (as of 11/13/17)

Eugen "Gargron" Rochko - site founder
Wesley "Laurelai" James Earl Bailey - Rat King

Spoiler: Accounts/Instances

Wil Wheaton (FORMERLY) - Z-list celebrity

The Japanese Invasion / "Lolicon Incident"

Mastodon has gained great popularity in Japan as an alternative to Twitter. Why are they looking for an alternative, you ask? Twitter has the means to ban Lolicon enthusiasts. Mastodon does not. As of now, 61% of Mastodon's total traffic is from Japan despite crackdowns on users posting animated or drawn child porn. You can see the whole incident timeline here.

Owner/Moderator Bullshit

One of their mods got into a heated debate with an alleged 14-year-old about whether the 14-year-old should suck girldick.

Spoiler: troonacy

And then blamed their inability to not perv on children on childhood trauma

Spoiler: obligatory sobstory

My opinion wasn't asked, but if you shouldn't be around children, you probably shouldn't run a social media site. They have a lot of children, I hear.

Rochko, when made aware of this, refused to take action against "CobaltVelvet", citing an earlier statement of the harassed ("The SRY gene determines sex") as "transphobic", "most exemplary of the trans-exclusionary radical feminist rherotic", and grounds for justified harassment. Screenshots will not be posted publicly to protect the informant.

Criticisms / Reception

John Henry of HackerNoon makes a great point as to why rules that are up to individual interpretation are an amazingly shitty idea

Spoiler: Rules Statement

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

At least all the troons on Twitter can fuck off now.

 

[The Fool]

Mastodon is a new "social media" site that is essentially just Twitter, excluding the free speech and easy accessibility that makes Twitter so popular. Naturally, it's attracting rat kings left and right.

It's worth mentioning that the moderators are complete emotionally unstable troons. And on top of that, the rules are vague and completely up to the mod's individual interpretations, as stated by the website's creator.

But that's the definition of twitter
Twitter's ToS literally say you get banned for disagreeing with someone

 

[Kled]

I thought this was a thread about the band and I got excited

 

[NotoriousD]

Mastodon is a new "social media" site that is essentially just Twitter, excluding the free speech and easy accessibility that makes Twitter so popular. Naturally, it's attracting rat kings left and right.

It's worth mentioning that the moderators are complete emotionally unstable troons. And on top of that, the rules are vague and completely up to the mod's individual interpretations, as stated by the website's creator.

Because this worked so well for ResetEra, right?

 

[FierceBrosnan]

I came to this thread thinking fans of the band Mastodon had done something completely exceptional not Twitter 2.0. That being said seems like a fitting name for a social platform for the Tumblr/troon/SJW/REEE crowd. Mastodons were fat and hairy and so are most of them.

 

[Old Wizard]

Because Mastodon is so small and has so many moderators, it's extremely micromanaged.

Twitter has yet to ban anyone for saying that the SRY gene determines sex, at least.

 

[The Fool]

How many users does this site have? All of these alternative social media websites usually have like 12 members who are all hipster tinfoil hats.

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

PTERODACTYL

 

[MG 620]

How many users does this site have? All of these alternative social media websites usually have like 12 members who are all hipster tinfoil hats.

If you count all the numerous troon headmates the number is probably very close to twitter's.

 

[HenryKissiger]

How many users does this site have? All of these alternative social media websites usually have like 12 members who are all hipster tinfoil hats.

According to this: https://mastodon.social/about/more
Mastodon has 100,000 total registered users, whereas twitter supposedly has 330,000,000 active monthly users.

Honestly, I wasn't expecting Mastodon to have such a small user base. I heard about it last year and thought maybe it would have hit a million by now, at least.

 

[CIA Nigger]

Might as well rephrase some of what I put in the Thorne Melcher thread:

Mastodon is a "federated" social network that anyone can run an instance of on their own server, it's also compatible with Gnusocial, quitter, etc (though has some compatibility issues). It was being shilled by the media like crazy back in April, but it's mostly used by asians because the company that runs NicoNico has an instance of it running and so does the company that runs pixiv. Most of the English speaking users are Twitter trans commies who were mad Twitter wasn't enough of an echo chamber for them. Most of the instances run by these types also have echo chambery rules, and some even have lists of other Mastodon (and GNUSocial, Quitter, etc.) instances they block that aren't ideologically pure to shield their users from those darn dirty trolls.

These are from the rules of one instance that caters to crazies, anticapitalist.party, which also has draconian rules. Most Mastodon instances have these, for example here's one of a random one I clicked on:

Oh and speaking of how anyone can run their own instance, Laurelai Bailey runs his own.

Either way though, sites like this come and go. People use them for a week in an attempt to stick it to the big social media platforms before migrating back to Twitter. I think it's telling that a personal troon lolcow I cringe at from time to time dumped Mastodon and went back to Twitter after making a big fuss on how they were LEAVING FOREVER.

 

[The Fool]

it's also compatible with Gnusocial, quitter, etc (though has some compatibility issues).

Makes sense, freetards are usually SJWs of some sort. Just kind of goes with the territory of shoehorning politics into something inherently non-political like technology.

 

[IV 445]

Why did they pick the name Mastodon? A mastodon is a lesser-mammoth. They’re saying they are fat and hairy, but beholden to someone who is even fatter and hairier than they are, so that makes them a bunch of fat hairy cucks by default checkmate atheists

 

[Marsaudiac]

Genuine question here: does Twitter really even have a "Nazi problem?" Even a hardline leftist like myself has yet to see some sort of alt-right takeover of the platform, despite bluechecks saying that Twitter openly verifies Nazi accounts. I mean, for fucks sake, Twitter already bends over for the Rat King as is. Loud people with ridiculous worldviews (of any ideology) are just going to come with the territory on a platform with over 300M users.

 

[CIA Nigger]

Mastodon is trending on Twitter right now:

So far it's being shilled by the usual genderspecials who have a fear of the shift key, with the whole selling point being "no nazis". Too bad anyone can set up a mastodon instance and this includes nazis.

Some are skeptical however.

This tweet stuck out as it features a list of some of the more cow infested instances:

Makes sense, freetards are usually SJWs of some sort. Just kind of goes with the territory of shoehorning politics into something inherently non-political like technology.

There's right wing freetards too, just look at /g/ and /tech/. I don't think specific incidents like the Leah Rowe saga or numerous code of conduct shitstorms killing projects helped either.

 

[The Fool]

Genuine question here: does Twitter really even have a "Nazi problem?" Even a hardline leftist like myself has yet to see some sort of alt-right takeover of the platform, despite bluechecks saying that Twitter openly verifies Nazi accounts. I mean, for fucks sake, Twitter already bends over for the Rat King as is. Loud people with ridiculous worldviews (of any ideology) are just going to come with the territory on a platform with over 300M users.

Nothing anywhere has a nazi problem, it's boogieman propaganda that got out of control after Trump won the presidency. You have insane leftists beheading people left and right because they're basically hunting witches. Worst part is nobody wants to point this out, not even centrists. That's what makes this so sad.

 

[CIA Nigger]

Nothing anywhere has a nazi problem, it's boogieman propaganda that got out of control after Trump won the presidency. You have insane leftists beheading people left and right because they're basically hunting witches. Worst part is nobody wants to point this out, not even centrists. That's what makes this so sad.

To be fair if you point it out you get the same treatment as pointing out someone's biological gender: run off the site. When Trump pointed out there was violence from all sides in CVille he was "defending and empowering nazis"

 

[FierceBrosnan]

Genuine question here: does Twitter really even have a "Nazi problem?" Even a hardline leftist like myself has yet to see some sort of alt-right takeover of the platform, despite bluechecks saying that Twitter openly verifies Nazi accounts. I mean, for fucks sake, Twitter already bends over for the Rat King as is. Loud people with ridiculous worldviews (of any ideology) are just going to come with the territory on a platform with over 300M users.

If you consider people that want to silence dissenting speech, call for the death of other races, and want a form of national socialism Nazis, then yes it does.

Spoiler

And you know I don't mean white supremacists

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

Since OP, my fellow wizard, stated the rules were poorly defined, I decided to take a look.

The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline:

1. Excessive advertising
2. Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources
3. Untagged pornography and sexually explicit content
4. Untagged gore and extremely graphic violence

Okay, I get untagged porn/sexual explicit stuff and also gore, but what counts as excessive advertising? And what the fuck is a third party news source in relation to Mastodon? Wouldn't EVERYTHING be a third party? Holy shit we are literally one single solitary fucking rule in and already I'm finding nits to pick.

The following types of content will be removed from the public timeline, and may result in account suspension and revocation of access to the service:

1. Racism or advocation of racism
2. Sexism or advocation of sexism
3. Discrimination against gender and sexual minorities, or advocation thereof
4. Xenophobic and/or violent nationalism

So you can't say nigger, cunt, troon, or be nationalistic. One of these things is not like the other. And since we're well aware that the inmates are running the asylum, I'm sure saying someone is black, a woman, or an MtF is grounds for instant ban too.

The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:

1. Sexual depictions of children
2. Content illegal in Germany and/or France, such as holocaust denial or Nazi symbolism
3. Conduct promoting the ideology of National Socialism

Are you hosted in Germany and or France? Because if not, you don't have to do this, you dumb shits. Also, related to my above point, you know the "Conduct promoting National Socialism" is just carte blanche to ban the "alt-right" as we see fit.

Any conduct intended to stalk or harass other users, or to impede other users from utilizing the service, or to degrade the performance of the service, or to harass other users, or to incite other users to perform any of the aforementioned actions, is also disallowed, and subject to punishment up to and including revocation of access to the service. This includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:

1. Continuing to engage in conversation with a user that has specifically has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist may be considered harassment, regardless of platform-specific privacy tools employed.
2. Aggregating, posting, and/or disseminating a person's demographic, personal, or private data without express permission (informally called doxing or dropping dox) may be considered harassment.
3. Inciting users to engage another user in continued interaction or discussion after a user has requested for said engagement with that user to cease and desist (informally called brigading or dogpiling) may be considered harassment.

First off, how to you impede other users from using Mastodon unless you low orbit ion cannon the fucking thing or something? Also, nice to see how you don't even have to block someone to get them off your feed, the admins will do it for you! Kiss my ass! (I admit that continuing to bug someone after they've blocked you is certainly harassment but block me first, don't skip to banning me, you cunt)

These provisions notwithstanding, the administration of the service reserves the right to revoke any user's access permissions, at any time, for any reason, except as limited by law.

"If we don't like you, we'll ban you."

Welcome to the tyranny of the echo chamber. Nothing's getting in my safe space.