Cancel culture is fine as long as the majority is right. But gay people were once a victim of cancel culture.

This is old news.

But what browser should I use? Do I have to check the politics of every employee or volunteer?

People on Mastodon are complaining about people talking about twitter, and posting their complaints to the hashtag #twitter which is very odd, as they could filter it.

I expect there will be filters on Lemmy eventually.

I think there is a risk that Threads will be massive, and so people will think that the way to get on Mastodon is Threads, and eventually that Threads is Mastodon. C/f Google Groups and Usenet.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jp5a77/google-a-search-company-has-made-its-internet-archive-impossible-to-search

I remember it filling groups with non-text posts which could not be read by Usenet clients, among other things.

I'm not on Facebook but I know people who are, and they are just ordinary people who made a poor choice and didn't read the terms and conditions. It's all those people who you are excluding, not just Facebook employees.

Suspending them before they have actually done anything wrong is a bit like a pre-crime.

Remember what Google Groups did to Usenet? We should be wary.

If it is software how do you know who has implemented it and whether the instance respects privacy?

I discovered google had recorded all the hashtags I had visited on mastodon. I thought I had turned off this recording, but there were additional categories which I think they have added since the last time I was there.

Of course the UK government and ISP record everything too, by URL, so that includes hashtags, even this post has a unique URL.