This is a big problem for Mastodon.
Canadian journalist Erica Ifill just had her mastodon.online account suspended without explanation. She's been sharing stuff critical of Mastodon re: intersectional issues.
I get the decentralized structure and idea that each server has its own rules. But this Reddit-style moderation, where moderators with god-complexes make mysterious and arbitrary decisions, is going to cause people migrating to Mastodon to flee in droves.
@mvlasic @llebrun
Obviously not, that's not what the Fediverse tries to be.
GMail, Hotmail and my private email server have one central set of rules what kind of emails are okay, right?
Reality is, if you don't like your instance and its administration, choose another, or run your own instance. It's basically the same choice you have for getting email service.
Mastodon is just a service running over ActivityPub in the Fediverse.
Just like Email runs over ESMTP.
Luke LeBrun
Mike Vlasic
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