‘boycotting’ / ‘speaking with your wallet’ used to be called ‘having an opinion’

Cancel Culture is none of those things. Cancel Culture is very specifically taking a platform away from someone who has misused it to do harm in our society.

Should you choose to vote with your wallet and boycott destructive people, though? Yes, absolutely. But deplatforming is observably effective, because we've seen that many of these loud, awful people simply aren't able to rebuild their following without the convenience of major social media platforms and interviews on major networks.

And without that following, they aren't shit. Alex Jones literally went bankrupt.

No, that's what I described in parentheses. Not really existent yet in the Web.

While "cancel culture" (in its narrow meaning in the Web, again) is when you have serious problems talking even to those who are willing to listen to you or undecided. Say, you won't ever read something, because the decision has been made for you by somebody else, and you don't even choose whether to delegate that decision.

The difference is in the architecture of systems used, actually. Because with both things every person involved acts voluntarily, it's just that in my variant that power to decide is spread more evenly.

What I mean is similar to the reputation system in Locutus, only it doesn't work yet.

a tool with less than a 10 year memory span

and/or has the self-awareness of a dishrag

To each their own.

I like my mods doing their job and keeping the fascists out, and I love that when we report that, it's investigated and a reasonable decision is made. That doesn't happen anywhere else but in the fediverse.