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> On Mastodon simply discussing certain topics will get you banned, and instances that don't ban those users get defederated.

This is why P2P is superior. Federation nodes can be used to strong-arm collective behavior against the will of individual users.

I don't mind being exposed to liberal and conservative thought. I want to consume almost the entire spectrum of human discourse so that I can synthesize ideas for myself and understand more effectively. As long as the signal is reasonably high.

Reddit and fediverse moderators wield absolute power over their fiefdoms. They're intellectual dictatorships. (Not to mention egotistical behaviors some of them have.)

P2P allows the end user to consume what they want, weight discussions how they want, and participate in any number of emergent clusters. It's the real path forward.

>>echelo+(OP)
Then just make your own instance?

Or is the complaint that you don’t have the power to force yourself on people who don’t want to read your shit?

>>misnom+v1
I think that with p2p you don't have to think of servers and still be decentralized like downloading a torrent file, peertube etc

>>misnom+v1
You've figured it out entirely. Mastodon is run by the kind of people who are willing to put in a bunch of time, effort, and money into dictating the conversation of others. People who enjoy that kind of power.

>>echelo+(OP)
> I want to consume almost the entire spectrum of human discourse

...said no one who's ever been a moderator.

You find out quickly that there are some perfectly horrid people out there. You absolutely do not want to hear everything that people say. It seems like you would, but you really don't.