[joseph8th]

Having run a Mastodon solo instance for a while now, I disagree on several points...

Mastodon has very few federation blocks built-in. Truth Social and Gab are about it. In both cases, the defederation is mutual, because even those two cesspools don't wanna mix effluence with each other, never mind the rest of the "libtards" in the wildly diverse and worldly Fediverse. They've chosen to be siloed.

So that pretty much demolishes the idea that even Mastodon is somehow intrinsically "echo-chambery". There are, again, no other built-in domain blocks.

If Mastodon is "echo-chambery" it's because the alternative is to remain federated with absolute cesspools. I made it 3 months running my instance before I had to start banning whole domains. There's multiple websites to help Mastodon admins curb the incessant shitstorm that exists in the Fediverse. Whole troll farms do nothing but pump out juvenile invective at innocent users... hundreds of posts with nothing but the N-word, K-word, F-word and detailed rape threats.

Again... this is happening on ActivityPub, right now.

You tell me... is it creating an echo chamber to ban Nazi scum?