Please don't post snarky one-liners to HN, least of all on divisive topics, where the guidelines ask you to be more thoughtful and substantive, not less.
Historically, the nazis were neither liberal (favoring liberty and broadly-shared social/economic development) nor conservative (favoring the preservation of existing social arrangements). What they were was radically authoritarian, totalitarian, irrationalistic (the one key feature that might license us comparing recent political developments worldwide to naziism!), and engaged in the pursuit of war, militant politics, violence and State-managed, systematic violence - generally associated with extreme and utter demonization of all sorts of 'unwanted' social outgroups. (We nowadays see such demonization and routine violence being practiced by e.g. non-State actors such as ISIL, but not so much in mainstream politics, thankfully!)
Even if this were what was originally said... both groups as so large that at the edges there really is no much difference. Antifa may not5 like nazis, but only because both are competing for the same ecological niche.
He did nothing of the sort. And his assessment is correct. Mastodon, and federated social networks, are the wrong direction for social media. I don't understand how more people don't see this; open-source or not, walled gardens only worsen polarization and demonization of the "other side".
If I want an uncensored social network, knowing that I will see objectionable content, then I can have that. Likewise, if someone wants their safe space where gender pronouns are banned, then they can have that, and neither of us interfere with each other - I can even still consume their content if I so wish.
I like my feed to not be flooded with racist/sexist replies. Mastodon has been a huge step in the right direction in this regard. "Free speech" doesn't mean "no moderation allowed".
Your "feed" (at least in the context of Facebook's/Twitter's) is comprised of people/groups that you follow. If your feed is garbage, then that means you follow people/groups that post garbage. Mastodon will be a more amplified version of that.
All posts on twitter are public, which means anyone is susceptible to abuse from any other user, and twitter does next to nothing about it. This isn't the case on the fediverse.
It's a way to make your very own extra-walled-in garden, for those who want that- just block every instance you don't like, or disagree with, and every instance that doesn't block those you don't like, or disagree with.
You don't need federated systems for an "extra-walled-in garden". Install some forum software (phpbb, discourse, ...), disable self-registration, done.
