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 ?
Yeah, the “mastodon.world” framing is… not good.
When I first made MULTIVERSE, I made the URL piefed.soulism.net. Then, I changed My mind. Now it’s multiverse.soulism.net. I am not offering people piefed. I’m offering people MULTIVERSE. We have our own branding, our own mission, our own values, our own rules. I have no interest on selling normies on the idea of Piefed. I wanna sell them on MULTIVERSE. MULTIVERSE is not piefed.
But lemmy.world is lemmy. Mastodon.world is mastodon. They do not represent themselves, their own values, their own meaning-making. They represent other projects. And I think that’s dishonest and kinda boring, and kinda bad for the fediverse.