What is the point of the fediverse having built-in censorship to ban ideas, views, and opinions? There could be a direct connection between why Mastodon does not attract new users and the totalitarian censorship of the fediverse pushing a monolith barbarian culture.
Looking through posts on the different fediverse services, it seems anything built on ActivityPub will only turn stale in 5 years because it is designed for people who can’t function in society where random individuals can freely reject their statements, so they need the internet to hide away from life.
I read your post, so don’t take my short response as me not reading through it or understanding your point.
But that user clearly passed the point where I could ever give them the benefit of the doubt. They’re using a clear right wing dogwhistle, and I don’t think they’re asking it innocently. I don’t think they used the keyboard thing as a pretext, but that the question they asked goes above the keyboard thing and reveals how they think about “being censored”.
Fair. The “Your side screams censorship” comment was something of a tactical blunder, too, if they wanted to be able to make the claim that this is all about keyboards. It does make it sound like they’re trying to back their way into making a political point primarily.
I also didn’t really read their whole post initially, I saw the basic gist and looked up the history, because I was mostly interested in the reality of how they were “censored” more than what they had to say about it. Then what I saw in the comments looked like the most knee-jerk of knee-jerks. But reading their post in detail definitely makes it sound a lot like they want to be racist but can’t. Whether that was their intent or their desire or not, I don’t know.
OP: If you pick a fight with the whole room, you’ll be in a fight with the whole room. There’s actually a significant sense in which I agree with you, probably putting me vastly in the minority on Lemmy, but you being deliberately disagreeable is going to make it harder for you to be able to succeed making your point, and also make a challenge for anyone who agrees with you to any extent.
It will also cause a bunch of conflict, though, so if that was your goal, you are succeeding.