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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Deplatforming requires a centralized platform from which to deplatform. Ability to sometimes deplatform real Nazis (but usually not) is not worth centralizing crucial systems, end of story.

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      1 year ago

      Not necessarily. It just requires that admins do their job and be good stewards of their users and instances.

      Mastodon, for instance, has a tag used exclusively for dogpiling fascists and their instances, so even though it’s decentralized, people are vigilant and keep the destructive elements disconnected. (Or, at least, make a great effort of it, which is more than we can say for Twitter.)

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        1 year ago

        I’m not a 140 characters person, so never got on the Twitter/Mastodon train.

        However, I think this is a wrong approach. It would be better if they were connected, but easily filtered. Just like NSFW.

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          1 year ago

          Mastodon gives you 500 characters.

          Also it has filters. :) I use those too, but I don’t have Nazi or Fascist speech filtered because I think it’s of the utmost importance that it be reported when it slips through. The upside is that in nine months of being on Mastodon, I can count on one hand the number of extremist toots I’ve seen. I’m glad filters exist for people who are emotionally upset by it, though.

          It’s a great platform and I love it.