@darius I can't pick my reaction to this development and must crowdsource my wisdom.

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I decided a few years ago that Seth was simply permsnently confused. He can't seem to decide what's right or wrong. No one needs that.

@darius I mean, the title is just so over the top... "harrowing"?

@darius What was the content he was suspended over? Curiously it’s not on the article. Just ”i haven’t violated any rules”. 🤔

@darius all I know is, every one of his tweets starts with “BREAKING:”, even if the news is a few hours old.

@darius Hes working Twitter for money and selling books. Hes vested a lot of time. Hes a fool.

@darius I saw this yesterday, or the day before. He is such a diva. He was here on Masto and I guess got booted, and now he's just whine whining his way on Post. He forgets that there are millions of other voices beyond his. Seth who?

@darius OK the whole vibe I get from this Post article is the problem is Seth, not Mastodon/fediverse...he just doesn't quite realize it yet.

@darius after I'd seen Seth mention post news for the Nth time, I asked why, and said it felt like a bit of astroturfing, and he Went Off!

@darius What a blowhard.

@darius lmao this owns

@darius Why is everyone who loves Twitter this much always on a social justice campaign. Why can't they just vote with their feet and leave quietly. Instead, it's a 4-page essay detailing their innermost thoughts on why they feel offended by something. Servers have owners and rules, simples. Don't like it, leave. You'd think an Attorney would understand how rules and laws work.

@darius Trust Post news? Don't think so. Yes, think for yourself. Everything is owned.
https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/who-owns-your-news-the-top-100-digital-news-outlets-and-their-ownership/

@darius @leigh He’s already announced over on Post that he “can’t wait” to block the the “haters” — meaning those who think he’s an ass and complain that Post is becoming Twitter redux because we have to see his stuff all over the place yet again. He'd best get started; he’s going to be block a lot of people.

@darius Thanks to Elon Musk for causing me to seek alternatives to twitter and land on mastodon. Home at last!!

@darius Hmm. He was banned from a general-purpose instance for seemingly no reason that he can understand. I'd call that a problem, regardless of your opinion of Seth Abramson.

The responses of "you can always find another server" are sad. Randomly de-platforming people with no clear policy is not really defensible.

Worse because as I understand it, banned folks are not given a way to move elsewhere and keep their followers - that requires cooperation from original server.

@darius @leigh “You’ll never have to read another Seth Abramson post again” is one of the best arguments I can think of for being on Mastodon.

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There are a handful of these big accounts that can't let go of their ego. When they are brought down a peg this is exactly the kind of response I would expect. A whine and insult rant.

Mastodon is the best "open space" social media I have encountered.

If people don't like it there's plenty of other options.

@darius i've been following him on twitter mostly for trump takes (which i find interesting, but yeah… he could certainly be more concise) and has been a bit puzzled by his other content, but it's weird that he would be bad from that instance just for linking to post, i agree one admin messing up doesn't mean the whole fediverse sucks, but i understand he's a bit shocked by that action, and consider the power of instance admins to be too little checked.

@darius Now he's ranking the Twitter alternatives.

He's at least got Mastodon at third but LinkedIn as fourth???😂​