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@Supes I found this article, it has some helpful information:

https://hackernoon.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mastodon-7a17e7f12a2b

@UltraCommie @rcode3 @snder @Supes

Silencing seems to be far more evil. You spend time crafting a polite response to a post with a carefully worded counter argument only to find that your post is thrown away and they never see it.

I can call @gargon@mastodon.social and know he’ll never be offended, because he will never see this post

Yeah, if they want free speech. It's free speech for all. @Supes

@defrisselle @supes mastodon should just go full circle and become a separate network. Their attempted appropriation of the fediverse has failed.

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Well now they're spaming @a with nonsense comments about some nonexistent pay wall. Seriously, none of them actually explain what they're talking about.

people run around screaming for freedom but when they see someone that's actually free it scares them, and that makes them dangerous.. paraphrased from Easy Rider. the only thing that liberals hate more than Donald Trump are people that think for themselves, that's a fact. ;-) @Supes

@Tanawylfen @texanerinlondon @Supes A big factor is technological advancements. It's NO coincidence that there was far less idiocy and degeneracy and snowflakery in an era with limited entertainment technology especially as opposed to nowadays.

People were more sensible in an era of brick phones and VCRs. Because there wasn't this air of instant gratification.

@texanerinlondon @Supes Another example why the 70's and 80's will live on forever. People were actual adults back then.

@Supes you say this so matter-of-factly like it's common sense. Most people, unfortunately, succumbed to the indoctrination of 20th century education. We have a public educated just enough to read and write, but too dumbed down to actually think critically about what it means. For the people that need to hear what you're saying, they can merely read it, they cannot interpret it. Outrage culture exists because people are too dumbed down to use logic or reason to think past their base emotion... Sadly, your words only reach those of us who are already aware of this problem.

@Supes It was always the left in the 70s, 80s, and 90s that told conservatives that if they didn't like the anti-Christian bigotry and bias on TV to just change the channel because censorship would be morally repugnant and un-American.

It's good advice for them, too.

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@Supes VERY wise words. And yes gab does have issues, still. They had massive performance issues on day one (no doubt because of the number of users), something that can't be tested well in a closed development environment. Gab is getting better day by day, one step at a time. In 2 weeks everything should be smoothed out.
Citicism and/or debate is what can make us think further, if done in a civilized way of course. Unfortunately there are idiots, clowns and trolls everywhere. I've been known to be an idiot at times myself, hopefully that is all in the past. 😃

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>put the big girl panties on
*LOL in Spanish* You win the Internet. Are we still doing that, or am I showing my age?

@Supes and this censorship is really ridicoulus. calling nazi all the gab users it's stupid. at least i'm not a nazi 😂
perhaps who screams to censor gab should look in a mirror; it's possible will find a nazi!!

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thank you very much for the freedom of expression on GAB

@Supes well if you are speaking of mastodon, when they first hit the net. It was even before Gab. To be honest it is where I came from. Owned and still own one. It was the platform of individual moderation by humans.
Every place ever business is falling to the pressure of the Democrats and Faggots and Freaks rants.
The township where we live that respects history. Tried to force us to take down our American Flag.
LOL* we won, all it takes is a backbone.
Or as Trump's magic wand.

@Supes I don't know why they'd want to block me. I probably don't share their politics or anything, but I don't hate Jews or non-whites like they keep telling me I do. But I guess intellectual dishonesty is easier on the shoulders than accepting reality sometimes.

@Supes @angristan I disagree with instance level blocks and think they should be opt-in (or at minimum opt-out). but transparency let potential users look at the blocklist before joining an instance and say "no they're too controlling".