Hey folks,
If you have the opportunity, I would kindly suggest to move off of mastodon.social.
It's one of the biggest, if not still the biggest instance and has been showing problematic activity not just now, but over the years.
That means being blocked by that instance, or trying to block that instance results in losing contact with a lot of people.
Which happened to @fabio just recently for the second time by being blocked. And I don't think any other instance to speak of did that.
The NPO behind it is also registered in Germany.
- a country which has the "Staatsräson" since 2008 of "The security of Israel is unnegotiable", "Our unconditional solidarity with Israel has never been under question for me. My personal relationship with Israel is unconditionally good." (then chancellor Angela Merkel)
Of course not a word about the security of Palestine or Palestinians.
- The country where now the Chancellor echoed words and the sentiment of former Nazi head propagandist Goebbels, by talking of migrants as an issue for the city image, for which he does not apologize. He also does not admit to a genocide being committed by Israel, even when Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the UN and genocide experts have identified and declared it as such.
- A country where a recent study of hundreds of TV and Newspaper reports for 2025 has shown that 95% of criminal suspects they reported on were foreigners, even though they only make up 34.3% of the actual criminal suspects.
Germany is deeply racist and pro-Israel.
- There was a strong push, which I did not follow of how successful it was, of defining antisemitism to put under suspicion of it any criticism of Israel, and stopping public funding for organisations that do not adhere to that definition.
I think it's naive to think that all this does not also put pressure on an influential project of public opinion such as mastodon.social.
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/studie-groesste-taetergruppe-systematisch-verschwiegen/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatsr%C3%A4son
https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/antisemitismus-2024/549358/israel-und-der-antisemitismus/
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/deutschland-israel-staatsraeson-100.html
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