This is a good post describing an impending migration from Twitter into Mastodon by Indian users, and some of the factors motivating the move. It's the usual story for the centralized social network sites: offensive content is not blocked, or blocked only selectively. As Mastodon itself tweeted, "To claim impartiality and non-bias, especially in 2019, is to take the side of the status quo." The article ends with the caution about echo chambers and the warning that "freedom of expression could also mean freedom to spread hate speech." As though this weren't presently the case on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Via Ca_Gi.
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