So here's something I tell people about the Mastodon side of the fediverse and Big Tech. Big tech has this delusional mindset of both playing god, and feeling that with more censorship they can make everything bad on the internet go away. Nevermind the fact that YT literally just suggested me some bestgore/liveleak video with 5 mil views that slipped through the cracks of the automated janny, nope. More censorship will keep the bad things from happening, and not fixing society.
They also feel the only thing that'll boost the fedi is more IRL/ecelebs (how did that work with Ninja and Mixer again?), more censorship, and more control. They don't think outside the big tech mindset, they can only think in it or otherwise the HR lady will be giving them a visit.
In other words they want Twitter with a different internet daddy or no internet daddy (or a soulless CEO as one, as absent as their real dad is).
I learned when running a group that the problem is when you cater to people who have to live in bubble wrap or as a "bubble boy", you will only attract these people who have to live in there as well, and then keeping them is a matter of walking on eggshells if you're not in their group and keeping up to date with the latest things that piss them off. Even if you do, you'll miss a day or two and you'll end up with a dead group/website over it.
Don't believe me? Ask Tyler Malka how it went catering to those people.
@PhenomX6@sj_zero The more that I hear about them, the more that them being controlled opposition rings true. It is a shame that it has come to this point. Was it always this way?
They only exist to whine about big tech while taking money from them so google can say they're not a monopoly. Only Linux distros and KaiOS ship it and it serves a similar purpose to IE in the case of the former: as a way to go to Google.com and download chrome.