oh and fyi last toot is not me taking sides. i hate seeing this crap on my timeline over something that should have been dropped days ago. it’s clear nobody is gonna budge one way or the other on the bofa silencing so continuing this farce isn’t going to get anyone anywhere.

nobody owes anyone else even a shred of reason for muting and instance. it’s the admins sole discretion because mastodon gives them the power and the tools to decide what is and is not acceptable content for their instance

and it doesn’t really matter what kind of instance you run in the first place anyway. if somebody doesn’t want your content to show up on their instance, even if it’s as benign as a cooking instance, they have every right to mute or block your instance, no ifs ands or buts

@cycm Agreed.

I just wish people framed it that way because framing it as a grand moral stand ends up forcing people to take sides.

@some_qualia sometimes people make dumb jokes, and if people very swiftly choose not to associate with those jokes anymore, that’s the end of it. as hurt as feelings might get, you just gotta drop it and move on, because obsessing over the reasons why or the person who chose not to associate with your humor just hurts you in the long run