Call me crazy, but I a) think the fediverse probably doesn’t have more ‘toxic content’, harmful and violent content, and child sexual abuse material then other platforms like X, Facebook, Meta, YouTube etc, and b) actively like the fediverse because of that.
But after a few hours carefully drafting and sourcing an edit to make it clear that no, the fediverse isn’t unusual in social media circles for having a lot of toxic content, I realised that the entire ‘fediverse bad’ section was added by 1 editor in 2 days. And the editor has made an awful lot of edits on pages all themed around porn (hundreds of edits on the pages of porn stars), suicide, mass killings, mass shootings, Jews, torture techniques, conspiracy theories, child abuse, various forms of sexual and other exploitation, ‘zoosadism’, and then pages with titles like ‘bad monkey’ that seemed reasonably innocent until I actually clicked on them to see what they were and, well.
I decided to stop using the internet for a while.
I’ve learned my lesson trying to change Wikipedia edits written by people like that - they tend to have a tight social circle of people who can make the internet a very unpleasant place for anyone suggesting maybe claims like ‘an opinion poll indicated that most people in Britain would prefer to live next to a sewage plant than a Muslim’ should maybe not on Wikipedia on the thin evidence of paywalled link from a Geocities page written by, apparently, a putrid cesspit personified.
I thought I’d learned my lesson about trusting Wikipedia.
It just makes me so angry that most people’s main source of information on the fediverse contains a massive chunk written solely by a guy who spends most of his time making minor grammar edits to pages about school shootings, collections of pages about black people who were sexually assaulted and murdered, etc, and that these people control the narrative on Wikipedia by means of ensuring any polite critics’ are overcome with the urge to spend the rest of the day showering and disinfecting everything.
It is pretty fucking toxic if you’re not a Linux sheep or violent-leftist.
The mainstream fediverse instances are definitely leftist, but there are also other instances that are politically on the right (e.g. poa.st and FSE) and some smaller ones that are welcoming to whoever regardless of political ideology. There are really instances for just about everything, which is what I like about fedi. You don’t have to associate with any instances you don’t like nor do they. That’s the part that gives you more freedom than what you get on mainstream socials. On mainstream social media, you are bound to their rules whether you like it or not. On Fedi, you aren’t. You can always host your own instance, build your own platform, and customize the client app to fit your needs.
Since anything non-left isn’t really accepted on most listing sites, the easy way of looking up alternative instances is just by looking up some of the public block lists and visiting or joining the instances on those lists. Good example: https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blocklists/mastodon/gardenfence.csv
Just have to do the opposite as per usual.
Love it. Those hypocritical fucks will rue the day they fuck with Tux.
Linux wins vs Windows (when it comes to user-control and stability). Immutable distributions allow reset to prior state, can Windows do that? Thanks for the bait by the way.
bruh
Well, it should be toxic for Reich Wingers
ok bye
How so?