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they don't do the "only stuff you do on our platform counts" bullshitDiscussion Ethically Online
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if not more they don't do the "only stuff you do on our platform counts" bullshit
if they join, say, Mastodon social and they don't do anything, you can just grab your account and send it to another instance.
if they set up their own instance, any other instances can block them from federating them.
social already blocks nazi / far right instances.
I don't know man, feels like you might have a bit too rosy and optimistic view of this.100%
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Maybe it's just me but the fact that in the year 2026 mastodon development still hasn't moved away from Microsoft owned github is more than enough to make me doubt how they would handle ICE hypothetically registering.
The fact that I could move away from the instance is a bit beside the point I was making.
I mean, can they register? Sure. That doesn't mean they would roll out the red carpet for them like bsky did.I don't know man, feels like you might have a bit too rosy and optimistic view of this.
Maybe it's just me but the fact that in the year 2026 mastodon development still hasn't moved away from Microsoft owned github is more than enough to make me doubt how they would handle ICE hypothetically registering.
The fact that I could move away from the instance is a bit beside the point I was making.
bsky promoted itself as 'the twitter without nazis', a safe space for the minorities suffering unmoderated abuse from twitter users. Once the money ran out, bsky leadership threw them under the bus.
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But it is an important point, thats the freedom in the fediverse, you can move away from instances you dont agree with, hell you can make your own instance and block the whole server.
Sure that sounds like more work than blocking them on bluesky but you would still be on bluesky which has made the message.
About bigger instances on the fediverse, they are run by people and not corporations, they have no obligation to allow any government agencies if they dont want to, and if they would do it then they would get pressure from rest of the fediverse because they could risk loosing members who donate and or getting defederated by other instances.
They just verified the account like any other account, I wouldn't call it a red carpet. Seems like it got no special treatment one way or another. The verified account tracker is a third party thing.
But I don't disagree with the rest, they definitely promoted themselves as a safer alternative to twitter, but yeah everybody probably knew that that was never going to last.
I'm specifically making a point about the "main" mastodon instances and whatnot and whether they would handle it any differently. I would like to see it happen one way or another tbh.
I guess I'm just a bit tired of the garbage news news cycle as of late.
And whenever I see a "look at this shit bsky did this time, mastodon would never" it just feels a bit like people are elevating fediverse (and mastodon specifically) into this weird sainthood status, and that's certainly not going to backfire.
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Oh I agree, I have talked lots about how toxic it is when fediverse keeps talking so much shit about other to make themselves look good
Truth Social, Trumps very own social media platform, runs on Mastodon.
So yeah, they can just take the software and make their own instance/version.
So yeah, they can just take the software and make their own instance/version.
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