If I understand it right, the moderator of the mastodon.world instance has blocked several posts by Hasnain Kazim, as Kazim reported yesterday on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/661473263/posts/10163657720033264/

Kazim is a quite famous and successful book author in Germany and something between left, conservative and liberal. He was journalist for the most important German weekly news magazine Spiegel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasnain_Kazim?wprov=sfla1

Canceling his posts is stupid and certainly completely exaggerated. To me from the external perspective it seems that the moderator is abusing his power. He is damaging free and respectful discussion. Furthermore, when a famous person like Kazim reports those experiences to his broad audience, who do not understand the functioning of the fediverse, the moderator also damages Mastodon in general significantly, it seems to me.

What do you think about this case ?

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[–] majster@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Its fedi being fedi. If you are outspoken public figure you should simply run your own or be perfectly aligned with the admin. This dynamic is probably why Bluesky managed to capture so much people.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

User on .world account complains about .world moderation.

This isn't a new problem, folk have been warning about it for a long time on Lemmy. Folk didn't want to hear it. I personally have zero confidence in their moderation. The cases I saw lacked impartiality and occasionally maturity. There are better instances. .sh.it.works for example.

I cannot imagine an organisation that appointed these moderators/admins would do particularly different on a mastodon server.

Best you can do, is move away from .world so folk see there is more out there to the fediverse than them. All eggs in the .world basket is a scandal waiting to happen.

[–] amio@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Anything can be a bannable offense when someone is enough of a little internet fascist. Probably won't kill the fedv off entirely but is damn sure not a selling point for anyone not already here.

"Hey, you know the people who get all officious and pissy about the tiniest atom of your every utterance? No, not the altright, the ot- yeah. How would you like to go discuss shit on a forum where half the major instances act like that? No, not Reddit, you wouldn't have heard of it as it's pretty niche for some reason. No? Yeah, didn't think so."

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