CW: long (almost 1,700 characters, mostly structured as a list), Mastodon vs non-Mastodon meta
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I'm wondering...
What if someone on #
Mastodon started a campaign for defederating everything in the #
Fediverse that isn't Mastodon?
Reasons:
- users of these projects keep shoving them into the faces of Mastodon users
- they think their projects are better than Mastodon
- they keep bragging about what their projects can do that Mastodon can't
- they spam Mastodon timelines with #LongPosts with over #500Characters
- they pester Mastodon users with their #RichText #TextFormatting
- they even use text formatting that Mastodon doesn't support, that must be intentional
- their mentions look weird because they're different from Mastodon mentions
- or they don't mention anyone at all when replying
- they can #FullTextSearch Mastodon already now
- they can make #QuoteToots of Mastodon toots, and nothing can stop them
- they rarely add alt-text
- they don't add content warnings because they don't have instance rules that demand so
- or they don't add content warnings because they claim that they'd allegedly got a better way of handling them, and the content warning field was actually for something else
- they never mark their images sensitive
- not a single one of their instances has signed the Mastodon Covenant
- you can't reach the admins of their instances
- or if you can, and you report a user for some of the stuff above, the admin claims the user hadn't done anything wrong
- it confuses and disturbs newbies when they find out that the Fediverse is not only Mastodon
- it makes the Fediverse too complicated if not everything is Mastodon
If you actually find this a good idea, keep in mind that defederating an entire decentralised project is a game of Whack-a-Mole.
