Why will the #fediverse fail? Users and admins. The #fediverse fails to be a free speech platform. You cannot have honest discussions on controversial topics. You can barely even have honest discussions on non-controversial topics lest you be accused of #hate #bigotry #racism #transphobia etc. One comment and an admin will block all of their users from interacting with you or your server. Admins and users decry echo chambers yet make every effort to create their own.

If you want to be a single user admin, block all you want. You have have multiple users, let the users decide. I’m not against users blocking people or servers they don’t want to interact with. I’m against server admins making blanket decisions for their users, especially on large servers. People in the #fediverse claim to hate the big corps that run other centralized platforms, yet they act exactly the same or even much worse.

@0x4e4448 well, then the best part about it, must be being able to make your own instance and not have to worry about someone else's arbitrary rules, right...?‍️

It's why I started mine.

@BeAware Except you do. I can’t control whether people on other servers have their own or not. Even if I’m on my own server, my discussion is almost exclusively controlled by admins on other servers. I don’t run my own yet, but I plan to. This issue still exists.

@0x4e4448 there's 30,000+ servers. Surely I cannot worry about what other admins rules are...so I don't.‍️

@BeAware It matters if I’m having a voluntary discussion with someone else and their their admin decides they don’t like it or another user decides they don’t like it, so they report you and get your server blocked. Yes, rules in other servers matter.

@0x4e4448 welcome to life. Rules matter. Don't be a dick and usually you won't get blocked.

@BeAware That’s where you’re wrong. Again, if you actually read my post, I said honest conversations on controversial or non-controversial topics. Honest, as in cordial. That means not being a dick and not even breaking rules. It is #fediverse admins are the worst about this. If they simply don’t like your opinion, even if the person you are talking to agrees or is having a fine conversation, admins will make false accusations and rules that don’t exist.