Welcome to Mastodon, for the people who move into an unincorporated area of the county so they don't have to deal with The Man, but then setup a HOA.
@SwiftOnSecurity This crowd will eventually finalize their threat to isolate themselves from everyone else, and then we'll move on. IMHO if they wanna defederate everyone, encourage them to get on with it already.
@SwiftOnSecurity (looks over at The Man) ...least my roof isn't actively on fire right now, more than I can say for them.
@SwiftOnSecurity well actually…you must put a content warning on this toot! 😜
@SwiftOnSecurity the people who buy a farmette on a gravel road and then lobby the county to pave the road
@SwiftOnSecurity It wasn't so much "the man" as "that man in particular."
@SwiftOnSecurity My "The Man" will certainly be better than their "The Man"!
@SwiftOnSecurity Twitter meanwhile is for the people who don't want the government telling them what to do, but enthusiastically move to the company town owned by Elon Musk.
Hey, at least the HOA is an improvement? Maybe?
@SwiftOnSecurity On corporate social media, I have never had any success with reporting even the most outrageous racist, homophobic, or transphobic posts for moderation.
On Mastodon, I have never yet seen such a report fail to bring a response.
I’m good with that, frankly.
@SwiftOnSecurity ugh I know half of the people in this thread likely are LIKE REMOVE CONTENT WARNINGS, like fuck off, this platform wasn't build for the ratios, or dunking on people. It was built so people could use social media without having a panic attack from doom scrolling, it was built so minorities could speak their mind without some white influencer from QTing them and sending 14.4K to harass some random black person. If this makes it an "HOA" fuck you. Go back to twitter where the facist roam free. Go back to your doom scrolling hell.
@SwiftOnSecurity I honestly think Mastodon being the HOA of the fediverse is kinda funny.
Mastodon even has the odd formatting rules to go along with it.
@SwiftOnSecurity are people really that dumb about their instance federation? sad
@SwiftOnSecurity That's why I run my own instance.
Sure, there's a HOA, but it's run by the same unhinged idiot that thought it would be a great idea to setup his own instance, so we just don't listen to him.
@SwiftOnSecurity I haven't seen any HOA kind of activity. What's happening now?
@SwiftOnSecurity This is sadly kind of accurate. But HOAs suck so it would be great if we collectively stop doing that here.
@SwiftOnSecurity it’s harsh, but it’s true.
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@SwiftOnSecurity hi, I'm super new to mastodon (made an account 10 min ago) what does this mean??
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@SwiftOnSecurity sorry, per section 5, subsection C of the mastodon HOA agreement (that you agreed to when your post was federated to my server): 'no posts disparaging the hoa may be posted on any social media, centralised or otherwise, without prior agreement of the board'. Your $€350 penalty charge is in the mail.
@SwiftOnSecurity Isn't RSS better than ActivityPub? The only bottleneck being that we have no decentralized RSS readers?
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I moved to New England from Florida and I always found it hilarious that all these self-labeled “libertarians” all seemed to live in HOA communities in FL where they never seemed to make the connection between “mandatory HOA fee” and “tax” 🙄
@SwiftOnSecurity LOL. I nearly spit my drink out at that. So true. The "We do it this way here" attitude is so HOA. Not that this is a fediverse only problem. Every religion, and ethnic culture does the same.
@SwiftOnSecurity It's great if you're the president of the HOA. Or as a friend (who is defacto the president of his) says: "wartime God-lord tiki torch emperor-prophet" of $NEIGHBORHOOD
@SwiftOnSecurity just waiting for someone to set up a 55+ fediverse…
@SwiftOnSecurity I like the analogy! But it hits a little too close to home.
@SwiftOnSecurity such an impossible choice. Maybe one of the buttons should be green.