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   ?Smoking cigs in Room 641a ??|?? (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Sunday, 14-Aug-2022 02:41:22 JST ?Smoking cigs in Room 641a ??|??

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   @xianc78 @alex @gnusocialjp @ryo I'd argue two things led to the fedi booming with the people the leftists hated. The first was the censorship push by Twitter (which takes various forms from shadowbans to throttling to just banning any dissident eceleb that gets big enough), and the second was the failure of monolithic, non-federated small social networks (known as "alt-tech"). Gab, Truth Social, Parler, Voat, and other now dead sites fit this bill. Those sites constantly found themselves targeted by hackers, and users monitored by every single political operative who wanted them gone.
   
   Two things happened after an unauthorized protest in 2021 on this end of the internet: Trump was banned from Twitter, and these "alt-tech" sites found themselves having user data leaked and passed to the feds by men roleplaying as female anarchists. This was huge as not only did it pass along the signal to not trust boomer grifters, but it allowed any tech that wasn't mainstream to flourish. Trump was literally the glue holding a lot of right wingers on Twitter and once he was banned, there was suddenly a motivation to embrace non-mainstream websites.
   
   This had been coming for a while of course with censorship related to COVID topics on a rise and some people who had been banned taking the hint and deciding to embrace the fediverse. This has definitely fueled the issue the fediverse has had ever since the Mastodon software launch: there are two groups on the fediverse. One group is for only approved speech, as if your words can make someone on the internet angry it's not free speech. They only like the decentralization aspect if it means that Russia/China/NK/Iran can also be utopias of democracy and LGBT rights, or if it means that one company they hate doesn't have access to their data. They're on there for the fear of being censored, and I say fear because when they are censored they wind up running to another social media platform (such as Twitter after the Tumblr porn ban).
   
   The second major camp are the people actually censored off of social media. These people are the Japanese artists who ate Twitter bans or are dealing with Twitter's increasing restrictions on viewing NSFW art, or anyone even moderately right, they're the feminists who ate a ban or even got a police visit for using the wrong pronouns, they're the "nazis", they're the "Patriot" Trump supporters, and most importantly they can't go back to Twitter.
   
   The first group absolutely hates the second one, and oftentimes will roll out things such as Fediblock or will pass around instances to censor with the #Fediblock hashtag. They do not want free speech, they want an instance where their delusions can be aired out with no questions asked. This is very important to understand with a lot of groups online such as the transgender mafia. They want something even more censored than Twitter, but harder to shut down. In some cases they've used dirty tactics to shut down instances, as an example bae.st used to be at neckbeard.xyz before the domain was lost.
   
   The free speech, weird art, and similar instances boom despite the abuse of blocklists for two reasons: a smaller instance is less likely to be censored than a bigger one, and a big instance like poa.st or pawoo has the critical mass keeping users on it. While poa.st is notorious to us, the average crusty leftist living in a shitty rental house has no idea of it's existence, and that's a good thing. Or better, their terrible instance blocks it. Leftist fedi instances are notorious for having some of the strictest rules and craziest admins on the fedi.