It’s against the principles of free software to deliberately restrict what a user does with software on their own machine.

An application that has hard coded censorship also has other unethical practices, I’m shocked 🙃

Isn’t gitlab one of those shitty “open” core projects?

netsplits/defederation.

You can’t just tell someone to register for any server, and they will be able to see everything. So they then have to choose a server, which takes effort, and can cause analysis paralysis.

It’s 10 times the number of instances that lemmy.ml blocks, if that helps.

For some reason there seems to be minimal overlap between the two communities and that blows my mind.

There seems to be completely different cultures IMO

• Quote replies are normal on lemmy, but controversial on mastodon
• Full text search is normal on lemmy, but, again, controversial on mastodon.
• A significant proportion of lemmy users seem to dislike defederation, or at least view it as a last resort, while it seems to happen at the drop of a hat on mastodon.

At least that’s the impression I’ve got from my limited attempts to use mastodon.

Guess I overdid the hyperbole, it probably came across stronger than intended, sorry.

I just sub to them all, there’s no limit like on reddit.

You gave me like five hours to reply lmao.

Someone who claims to be a socialist, but who has a pathological obsession with identity politics and dividing the working class, and gives little regard to class consciousness or worker solidarity. Usually has an extreme hatred of patriotism despite patriotic socialism being the official ideology of the Soviet Union. Often defends lumpen behaviour to a bizarre extent.

Did I miss anything?

Isn’t Germany’s antifa infested with antideutsch crazies?

I normally hate the whole de-federation thing, but the radlib chapocels there are annoying af.

I feel like you gloss over what instances block each other.

Counterpoint: having the appearance of exclusivity is usually a good way to grow.

Gmail originally grew because you needed an invite, so seemed like anyone with one was in an “exclusive club”, bluesky is using the same technique.