Alternatives exist but they are not exactly traditional social media so it’s similar to comparing apples to oranges.

Ok so we got a regular GTA story with humour, 2 main characters in relationship (maybe another playable one?) and hopefully a detailed open world to do side activities in. Looks good enough for me. Just make it at least as good as RDR2 and you have my money.

Honestly imo people with such views should stay away from the internet, especially if they claim to support respect to everyone at the same time.

Also my country does police disrespect.

I haven’t been on many websites recently so my information can be outdated. Also from what I’ve seen whether you like a moderation technique or not depends on your personal views.

I think we just have very different morals and views. What you consider “free” I consider a disrespectful and toxic place.

I understand the natural drawbacks of the federated system but pretty much all of the instances have the same issues. That means different views are defederated immediately which makes the whole system lose one of its advertised advantages that is lack of a biased algorithm. You don’t need an algorithm if your instance only federates with pretty much the same ones. In fact, it’s probably even worse. This makes any federated system basically only suitable for opinionated closed forums. The only difference is all the same ones are federated which increases convenience and engagement.

There’s a compromise between a controlled social media and a federated system - a self-hostable system without federation support (Revolt uses it for example). One instance will always be the main one but anyone can create their own ones for both opinionated and general purpose communities. However the issue with that is low engagement on the less popular instances.

So ultimately a real social media service that is not a “central dictatorship” is practically impossible.

Oh that too. However I think some websites handle such issues better than others.

I lost faith in Mastodon. The restructuring should enforce EU laws on it which might reduce the levels of disrespect on the platform but it will remain federated which means different instances will always disrespect and hate each other. That’s just how people are nowadays.

A bridge is basically a set of 2 bots. If you send a message on Mastodon, a bot account also sends it on X under your name and vice versa.

There might be some kind of AI or rule based system but likely it is manual. It’s not like they actually have to review everyone. Imo the system is mostly made for not letting spam bots in.

To me it looks like you need to be accepted before you can view the posts. Think of it as a private Instagram account.