Arguably the fediverse is as free as it can possibly get without forcing other people to listen to you.
The boundary of the limit of expressing your opinion is directly determined by other people’s willingness to listen. No CEO. No company policy. Just you and the community of users who are willing to listen. The standard is set by users.
The more you push it, the more extreme your contact becomes, the smaller the community gets, until it’s just you imposing those views on no one but yourself.
That’s an incredibly naïve view of human communications. We’ve seen time and again that making your views more extreme does NOT necessarily lead to you being ostracized and alone. Plenty of communities have become echo-chambers of horrible extremist opinions.
If you have just one friend who thinks the same extreme views as you, you can soldier on. And eventually, you’ll find a third. Then more.
Arguably the fediverse is as free as it can possibly get without forcing other people to listen to you.
The boundary of the limit of expressing your opinion is directly determined by other people’s willingness to listen. No CEO. No company policy. Just you and the community of users who are willing to listen. The standard is set by users.
The more you push it, the more extreme your contact becomes, the smaller the community gets, until it’s just you imposing those views on no one but yourself.
That’s an incredibly naïve view of human communications. We’ve seen time and again that making your views more extreme does NOT necessarily lead to you being ostracized and alone. Plenty of communities have become echo-chambers of horrible extremist opinions.
If you have just one friend who thinks the same extreme views as you, you can soldier on. And eventually, you’ll find a third. Then more.