Sounds like he’s some sort of nationalist and socialist…

Who is more famous in Germany; Micaela Schäfer or Dorothee Elmiger? I would say the winner of the German book prize 2025. You would probably pick the ‘model’,because more people know her. Fame is not objective. Well, it is not relly important here anyway.

It’s right there:

A post of him was deleted where he reported that a majority of arabic language comments in international media were celebrating the attack in Berlin on a Pride event, and were also celebrating the guy who weaponized his car. He says that this is a big, massive problem in that post.

He then just posted “The mods have deleted my previous comment, is that for real?” while citing the same comment again - this is what got him banned.

[email protected] material.

Yeah I’d be curious about context, too.

If someone gets banned from an instance, they are free to move their account to a new instance and still keep their followers.

Someone doesn’t just get to break instance rules just because they are a successful author. Attitudes need to change, if you approach the fediverse like corporate social media, you are doing it wrong.

What’s his excuse going to be once he gets muted on bluesky?

It’s in the bottom right of the screenshot that shows his complaint:

Der „Moderator" hier hat allen Ernstes diesen Post von mir gelöscht:

Ich habe gerade Leserkommentare mehrerer internationaler Medien durchforstet. Die große Mehrheit der arabischsprachigen Kommentatoren feiert den Täter von Berlin, die große Mehrheit feiert seine Tat. Und das ist ein sehr großes Problem.

Deepl translation:

The “moderator” here actually deleted this post of mine:

I just went through reader comments on several international media outlets. The vast majority of Arabic-speaking commenters are celebrating the Berlin attacker; the vast majority are celebrating his act. And that is a very big problem.

To me it implies he doesn’t really fit in a political box. But yeah centrist.

I am often called a centrist… I hold views the left and the right both despise, I agree with one here and the other there. In USA we are officially “independents” and are the majority of voters (40% independents, 30% Democrat (“left”), 30% Republican.

“independents” also include all other political parties (Greens, Libertarians, Socialists, et al), which are more active locally than federally.

What do those words mean? They are far to broad. What does my opinion on Tariffs have to do with my opinion on health care?

Classical liberal (but not liberal) at least has meaning - lets not kill each other even though we are of different religions (and in the last 200 years expanded to: lets not hold slaves and lets allow women to have rights). However because that is so broad there is lots of room for disagreement on details within that category.

Yep. But I’m not sure what Centrism is, exactly.

In America’s Overton Window, Centrism typically means Classical Liberalism, while eschewing far-left mindsets like Marxism.

american?

One can have many different views on political decisions. We have many models and axies to describe and categorize them, but no model is perfectly describing the complex reality

some Ideas one can have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies only few of them are mutually exclusive

Any instance, mastodon.world for instance, is NOT Mastodon itself.

It’s this very thing that especially those who only came to Mastodon for reach often don’t understand.

All Fediverse newbies, except for those who escape from Reddit to Lemmy those very few who escape from Instagram to Pixelfed, are being railroaded to Mastodon without being told a thing about the Fediverse outside of Mastodon. That’s because those who on-board them either think that Mastodon is hard to understand already, what with being decentralised and having “instances” and stuff, and the Fediverse, as a network of tons of wholly different stuff, is incomprehensible level: eldritch. Or they don’t know about the Fediverse outside Mastodon itself.

In fact, most Mastodon newbies seem to not even be told about Mastodon being a network of lots of independent websites. They may think that Mastodon is a network in the same sense as Facebook being a network.

So for those who joined via the Web interface, Mastodon tends to be a website. Namely the server that they’ve joined.

For them, mastodon.social = Mastodon = the Fediverse. Or mastodon.world = Mastodon = the Fediverse.

For those who joined by loading and using the official app without taking a glance at any Mastodon server’s website even only once, Mastodon is a phone app, just like Telegram is a phone app, and Facebook is a phone app. They don’t know fuck all about what’s happening behind the app, and they don’t care as long as it works.

For them, the Mastodon app on their phone = Mastodon = the Fediverse.

Private, spare-time Mastodon users will eventually learn that Mastodon is, in fact, not one website or simply an app, but made up of many such websites called “servers” or “instances”.

The next step will be for them to learn that the Fediverse is, in fact, not only Mastodon. That all these Mastodon “servers” are fully connected to other wholly different websites a.k.a. “servers” (or whatever the respective Fediverse server application calls its servers). For example, this happens when they receive an answer to one of their toots that’s way over 500 characters long (which they deem technologically impossible in the Fediverse because Mastodon can’t do it), and that contains stuff like text formatting (which they deem technologically impossible in the Fediverse because Mastodon can’t do it).

Even private, spare-time Mastodon users may be stuck in such a Mastodon-only bubble that they take two years or more to learn the latter.

Now, professionals, that’s a wholly different matter. They don’t have time to engage with the community. They can barely catch up with the comments on their posts. If they read them at all, that is. They don’t read what the community has to say outside these comments either because they don’t follow anyone who’s really engaged in the community.

Thus, they never come across a message that even only gives them a hint on what the Fediverse actually is. Nothing that they actually pay attention to on Mastodon tells them that Mastodon is not just one website or a phone app that neatly hides what’s happening behind itself.

They can have joined in early November, 2022, days after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and still think that Mastodon is one website. And either they’ve never heard the term “Fediverse”, or they think that “Fediverse” is another name for Mastodon, i.e. that one website that they think is Mastodon.

Kazim probably was too professional and too busy to see what the community was posting about. So he kept on “knowing” that mastodon.world = the Mastodon website = the Fediverse.

Yes but the banned person running their own instance will likely also be defederated…

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.

People’s first impression tends to color how they view something. Fair or not, the first Mastodon instance you join tends to affect your view of the software, and the Fediverse as a whole.

If people tell you to join a social media website, and you get treated poorly when you join, why would you want to stay on that website’s social network?

The difference with Trump was that he made it up or didn’t remember what he had seen, then made no effort to find out if he was in error.

“Leave ‘big tech’ platforms, they’re abusing their influence. Come to fediverse where power tripping mods abuse their position instead!”

I thought that only a delete by the instance admin prevented account migration on Mastodon? That ought to be changed if not. The whole point of mastodon is the freedom to move without losing followers. If your whole following is predicated on the actions of moderators, that’s not healthy for the network

That was the only article I could find about him too.

It gave plenty of examples of him trolling bigots, almost nothing about him being a journalist except something he did for a student paper as a teenager

It seems very likely that he was fucking around and got banned for trolling.

thx. This case, though, goes beyond a simple case of annoyed users.

Kazim is a bestselling author from Germany, carrying a CNN Journalist Award. He says he got canceled because his posts were not appreciated by the mod. This case concerns the basic working and ethical principles in the fediverse, I would say.

Not at all. Audit log with moderation decisions technically exists, but is visible only to admin and moderator, and contains only actions by local staff.