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I’m beginning to think that the Germans are somehow predisposed to being fascist hitlerite genocide supporters. More so than other Europeans, I mean.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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Saw a guy comment on a YouTube video on an '80s J-pop album whose profile picture was a flag that had the Germany and Israel flags combined. I just responded "zionist" and they deleted their comment at least.
They argued to keep namibian skulls after the genocide there for a long time.
Holocaust exceptionalism doesn’t in fact lead to an awareness nor solidarity with the oppressed peoples of the world.
Unlike East Germany and its socialist education which were a major supporter of Palestinian rights. Lots of the older west german politicians are still triggered by the german autumn and the RAF, doesn’t help that german 9/11 involved the PLO.
As a somewhat negligent mastodon admin, my opinion is that instances follow a bell curve.
one user: fascist
10-500 users: based
500+ users: exponentially fascist (starting at a low value)
The big instances can be a good place to get your feet wet, but they all strive to be "general interest" (or "general interest, but for computer touchers") and constantly find themselves hamstrung by stuff like this.
I find big mastodon instances are mostly infested by radlibs.
It's not purged though? It's here https://mastodon.social/@rzeta0/114344137174800482
It's marked as sensitive, like the mod note says. I've not used Mastodon, does that do anything more than adding the "sensitive content" cover over the video until you click it?
In the screenshot it also just says that people habe to tap the post to see it. Seems like a huge nothingburger?
that's fair it's still there, just lightly censored
Mastodon is federated like we are, we should be speficic about the instance in question.
It's mastodon.social, the "flagship" instance run by Website Boy himself.
Website Boy
whom?
Federation is precisely what makes this situation tolerable. Even if the flagship instance ends up doing censorship, they can't impose it on the whole network. This kind of stuff is a perfect illustration of why people should prefer Mastodon to Bluesky.
Are there any good mastodon instances? I've used kolektiva.social and its OK but I realized it has a "no-tankie" rule. And the explore page is still mostly dumbass libs
Or maybe mastodon is just ass
One of the contradictions of the fediverse is the ease of defederation (or, the flippancy of moderators) completely negates one of the main benefits of federation - not needing multiple accounts. Even "good" instances have probably defederated or been defederated by instances you want to interact with. You can always make your own, though.
Regardless, https://toots.matapacos.dog/about is run by a Hexbear user
mastodon is kind of annoying as I'm pretty sure the explore page shows the most active posts from all federated instances no matter what instance you're actually on, so you're always going to see lib shit. you have to look at the instance's Live Feed to find new local posts, and it's only sorted by most recent so it's only minimally useful if you're lucky
I'd bemoan the lack of a good M-L instance but we actually have one at toots.matacapos.dog and it's super dead as far as I can tell
myself, I just use the FOSS/Linux mastodon to follow some people from that part of the Internet that I like and mostly forget it exists at all
Yeah for politics I've only found a few good accounts to follow. Mostly anarchists
I looked around and it does look like vast majority of instances are either lib or anarchist run. I just ended up spinning up my own with masto.host, but not everybody wants to spend 6 bucks a months on this sort of stuff. :)
Where is the content of the post in question that was removed for context?