Ello, just stumbled across this site. Assuming it’s a free speech version of reddit or something. Keep seeing the word Mastodon around these here parts. Anyone care to fill me in on what this place is about? Cheers yo.

  • Masterofballs@wolfballs.comM
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    3 years ago

    Pure free speech is pretty hard. My goal is to be as free as possible. Communities can chose how they want to moderate. I moderate the default community so I don’t want racist spam. Saying a slur will not cause a site wide ban. Most communities allow slurs but a mod can chose to ban you from their community just like you can ban anyone for any reason from your communities.

    I can chose to hide communities from the front page if you are not subscribed to it. The front page is like the wolf balls advertisement platform. So no community has a right to show up though most will. It has to be pretty offensive for me to hide it from unsubbed All.

    You do have a right to your opinion and voice here. We don’t do view point discrimination.

    My general goal is to have gab level free speech in a reddit like platform while promoting the fediverse and the decentralization of communication.

    • goldenballs@wolfballs.com
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      3 years ago

      I am simply asking an “in primciple” question. What i’m really commenting on is context. E.g.: rap music… Most who listen to it don’t think about the content. In addition, some words in america are more (or less) contentious than elsewhere; there can some epithets that you are oblivious to, e.g.: if i start talking in Caribbean patois, for instance. So, if someone posts a meme with “nigga please” in it, you know that the context is nothing to do with a slur, it’s a trope or meme… I refer you to Chris Rock’s old comedy routine about “black people v niggers”. Now, Mr Rock is obviously making a point about the word meaning something quite different, and he does it in a funny way, but on reddit, you can’t talk about it, even in a complimentary way, missing the whole point. So, having a blanket ban seema to undermine your goal, at some level, there needs to be contextual judgement, otherwise it’s a bit of a waste of time.

      • Masterofballs@wolfballs.comM
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        3 years ago

        I don’t really know what you are talking about.

        We don’t have any ban on the word nigger. You can say nigger all you want. Otherwise how could we effectively communicate? No word will ever be banned here. I ask that users not make 30 communities named stuff like niggercrime. Which has little to know communication value.

        Otherwise we would have to disable community creation. The site would not survive attacks.

        That said a communuty wide rule has no bearing on the whole site. A community must be governed by its owner so that they have a place to speak.

        This allows the most freedom of speech. Because you need the right to have a space to voice your speech without it being drowned out .