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?

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

Even Churches use Facebook. It’s not going to be easy.

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.

I should think there are many people who think Google Groups is Usenet, and they have to register with google to post on there. Recently I think they have removed the option to view the source of an article.

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.