It appears that my lot in life is to upset gatekeepers, be they fascist or avowedly antifascist.
Three Fediverse instances now have decided that they don’t want me to be a part of them, or so it would appear from my current lack of access to Kolektiva Dot Social.
Such is life in the Oh So Precious Fediverse, I can imagine the delight that would be experienced by the first ignorant fascist Dickhead who reported me & got me banned from Aus Dot Social for challenging his “friendly suggestions” to hide my abhorrent “#Auspol” from his gentle eyes. Not for ignoring them or going against them, just for questioning his right to make them. (“I am a friendly reasonable person, so please do as I suggest or I’ll get you thrown into the Outer Darkness”, only without the warning.)
Since then I have been banned from Aus Dot Social’s sister instance The Dot Blower for merely telling them in an introduction that I was the person that Dickhead had got banned from Aus Dot Social. So much for openness & honesty in the Fediverse.
However I no longer really sweat on getting banned by them, they are after all just ignorant Aussies exercising their inalienable Australian rights to ignorance & arbitrariness. They know no better. I do admit that Aus Dot Social did initially set me back on my heels a bit by banning me following my first interaction post leaving Twitter.
However I would have, did, assume that Kolektiva was more adult, intelligent, reasonable than them.
My current apparent unofficial exclusion from Kolektiva reminds me of a church youth club I wandered into in my youth, only to be asked to leave half an hour later, my questions were not acceptable unto them either apparently. However at least the church asked me to leave.
One person, not to my knowledge officially, did reply to a post in which I had stated that I approved Big Government, as in socialism, asking if I was in the right place to be expressing such heresies, my term not theirs, but no-one from Kolektiva Dot Social at any time questioned me or warned me that such deviationism would result in my exclusion, officially or unofficially. It is as if the village or factory Soviet had decided to punish a perceived dissident, someone making trouble by expressing thoughts not approved by the Soviet, not by exiling them to Siberia, or throwing them out of a window or poisoning them, but by just ignoring them & pretending that they don’t exist & hoping that they will just go away.
It may well be that I am slandering Kolektiva Dot Social because I have heard nothing at all from them, it is just that one day, my password no longer worked, & no normal “Forgotten your password” response worked. Sending them messages as @admin @kolektiva.social elicited the same lack of response. The account is still there, but I no longer have the ability to log into it.
Perhaps one has to be a card carrying anarchist to be a member of this social club.
“Wot” I hear you say, “Do anarchists carry cards?”
No, of course not, that would be silly wouldn’t it?
“Then, how do they know if you believe what they believe? In fact are their anarchist ideas uniform & unchangeable & unchallengeable? Do they not include any shades of anything other than “no rulers” & “voluntary association”?
Voluntary Association, now, there’s a thought, if you don’t allow voluntary association you can hardly describe yourself as one who bases their life on that principle.
This is unfortunate because as far I can see, the anarchists are the only ones possibly capable of seeing the global problems & asserting themselves against the oligarchy, the plutocracy.
If Kolektiva is representative of anarchy in general & they were the only possible remedy, then things do not look good children.
I foresee problems in the Brave New World.
