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Tim Bray Nov 11, 2022

So, I wrote a large-ish blog piece on #mastodon yesterday: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/10/Mastodon
I think some here might enjoy it.

But this morning I added: “This piece is mostly positive on Mastodon. But in view of this twitter thread from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, I’m very uneasy about recommending for mainstream use until such point as the community figures out how to prevent this kind of dumb shit.”

The thread: https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1590562933842800641

ongoing by Tim Bray · Mastodon Moment

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Bruce Nov 11, 2022

@timbray Is there a concept approving new Mastodon servers before allowing them to "go live"? I don't know what to say in response to CPW's complaints about mansplaining and white-splaining (is that a word?), but the idea where "Nazis" can just create new Mastodon instances to harass from, how could that be prevented?

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Eliot Lash

@bgeerdes @timbray There is no central authority that can "approve" servers. Although Mastodon gGmbH operates joinmastodon.org and has control of which servers are allowed to show up there, and requires servers listed there to abide by the Mastodon Server Covenant.