Change servers. Mastodon.social has been widely called out as too tight controlled. On my server (kolektiva.social) pro-Palestine accounts including mine have no trouble whatsoever, though Zionist accounts migjt get banned as racist. Posts will of course still be readable by followers on other servers, that's the whole point to federation.
the internet is ephemeral anyways. I'm on a small instance and I love it so much more than the other instance I was on. Could it one day go away? Sure. Any important post I make I usually keep in other places, and I wouldn't care to retrieve the rest of my posts, honestly the majority would be irrelevant when that happens, heck, they become irrelevant within weeks or even days. The internet moves fast, we can't cling to everything forever.
OK, that describes how you think of your posts. I'm fine with you treating your posts however you like, but please don't generalize "we can't cling to everything forever" with that we.
I've written poetry that depends on the text/alt-text distinction. When the Mastodon server goes away, it does in its current form. Not everyone is you.
fair, I can't speak for everyone. I'm just giving advice from experience. Tech dependant on others, or heck, even dependant on yourself won't always be reliable. Keep backups, don't shoot the messenger
It is impossible to "keep backups" of text that is embedded in a social graph. Yes, everything online is going to die eventually, and also everything is going to die but people still try to keep that from happening for a reasonable period of time. The time for small Mastodon servers probably averages 2-3 years.
If you can write the alt-text originally as a local text file, then copy and paste it into the alt text entry you will have backups so long as you also rerain the images themselvea
The Fediverse, not only Mastodon, is a effective and reliable communications platform, as far as you own your own instance. Or you belong to a nice and good vibes instance. I would leave mastodon social.
Good morning or evening @Gargron In response to @nelsonakis you express that “ We may however moderate accounts that share misinformation or use antisemitic tropes such as Holocaust inversion.”
By not providing proof of such “misinformation” or “tropes such as Holocaust inversion”, you cast more shadows than light on the matter in question and the feeling remains that moderation is done from a biased perspective and contrary to the freedom of speech that is so much defended in this type of platforms.
Moreover, if in this type of digital spaces it is not possible to expicite the atrocities that the Israeli government headed by Netanyahu commits daily against the Palestinian people, in that case, the contradiction between discourse and practice becomes more than pathetic.
Can you provide reliable proof that the silenced or hidden account of the public line incurred in what you express in your answer?
I support the above question in two aspects: a) in the reasoning of @nelsonakis “the reasoning behind such a decision, maybe even with the user's post(s) that triggered it.” and the principle of Onus probandi.
Calling out Israel for doing something that was also done by the Nazis during the Holocaust is NOT antisemitic! I've seen comparisons especially to the Ghettoes by Holocaust survivors themselves. Nobody gets to call those survivors antisemitic.
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I've written poetry that depends on the text/alt-text distinction. When the Mastodon server goes away, it does in its current form. Not everyone is you.
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I think I'll just write a thread about this on my own rather than than get on the case of well--meaning people.
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In response to @nelsonakis you express that “ We may however moderate accounts that share misinformation or use antisemitic tropes such as Holocaust inversion.”
By not providing proof of such “misinformation” or “tropes such as Holocaust inversion”, you cast more shadows than light on the matter in question and the feeling remains that moderation is done from a biased perspective and contrary to the freedom of speech that is so much defended in this type of platforms.
Moreover, if in this type of digital spaces it is not possible to expicite the atrocities that the Israeli government headed by Netanyahu commits daily against the Palestinian people, in that case, the contradiction between discourse and practice becomes more than pathetic.
Can you provide reliable proof that the silenced or hidden account of the public line incurred in what you express in your answer?
I support the above question in two aspects: a) in the reasoning of @nelsonakis “the reasoning behind such a decision, maybe even with the user's post(s) that triggered it.” and the principle of Onus probandi.
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