AI creates fiction that sometimes intersects with reality, in the same way that Legends & Lattes has a few real-world things like coffee shops and lattes, but the things like orcs, ratkin, succubi, and magic that comprise the rest of the details are still currently fiction.
People just need to learn to assume LLMs are always writing fiction with a handful of details borrowed from real life.
Joke's on them! My instance doesn't save downvotes. /hj
I've been on Mastodon for a long time, and I haven't seen a single Nazi. If your Mastodon is "empty or full of Nazis," my guess is there's one of four things going on:
You aren't following/followed by good people. Use hashtags, boost toots, follow people back, follow accounts that try to share interesting accounts or hashtags.
ban and mute functions for bad actors. For especially bad ones, report them.You aren't following hashtags. Similar to the above, there's no algorithm. You decide what your feed looks like, and following hashtags for subjects you're interested in will help you find good people and good commentary (this is much healthier than letting a dumb algorithm decide what you'll find "most engaging," anyway)
You are looking at the Local or Global feeds too often. Depending on your instance's federation rules, you are more likely to find those aforementioned "bad actors" here, since these feeds are not curated.
Your definition of "Nazi" is the one that means "anyone left of Marxists," or, "supports Democrats," and if so, that's watering down the meaning of the word and giving cover to the real Nazis.
Whatever the case, if the people you're seeing aren't sharing your ideals, pick a different instance or spin up your own, and/or do the things I suggested (insomuch as they are relevant to you). My Mastodon feed is filled with artists and just generally positive people trying to do some good in the world.
Good. The more people leave the cesspit, the better off they'll be.
Inb4 some speciously-reasoned lawsuit from the "Department of Government Efficiency" comes for BlueSky alleging anticompetitive practices or something equally ridiculous.
Discord at least has community moderation tools. Xitter is just a town square where all the Neo-nazis and conspiracy theorists get louder megaphones than everyone else.
But the "my friends are there" is such a weak argument, imo. BlueSky exists. Spoutible exists. Mastodon exists. If they're IRL friends, they can just regroup elsewhere. If they're only online friends, you can make new ones pretty easily.
"My friends are there" is just a tacit admission that they don't mind sharing space with Neo-nazis.
I know I can't ever go back. I donate to my instance, and I actually feel good about it, because I know it's not going into the pocket of some faceless corporation who's beholden to its shareholders instead of its customers.
Hardly. The Fediverse spans multiple apps and services, and it existed before Elon bought Twitter and it will continue existing regardless of what the billionaires do, because it's not run by just one person.
The whole point is decentralization, not growth, so unless the billionaires can take out every server hosting an instance, the Fediverse isn't going anywhere.
Yeah, but you're not a shitty billionaire who's directly contributing to and accelerating the decline of humanity, so you get a pass.
You mean head of DOGE? Because we live in the timeline where a terminally online edgelord with the brain of a 14yo and the body of a 54yo makes meme government agencies.
Anyway, get your passport now. They're good for ten years, enough to last at least through the tentative end of Trump's circus.
But that's not as exciting as promising to end something that's barely happening in the first place.
People elected Trump to be entertaining, not for sensible governance.
You get the thing that represents all cyber truck owners: a lollipop, or as it's also known—a "sucker."
And that's honestly a good thing. We don't need Twitter clones, because as much as people remember the Twitter of yore fondly, the people in charge made some really terrible decisions for their users, and a lot of people have forgotten that.
Mastodon is and should always be distinct from the Twitter-likes; if it starts to be a little too similar, then it's probably lost its way.