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Luke LeBrun Nov 21, 2022

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.

https://www.presscheck.org/journalists/erica-ifill

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MilesOReilly

@llebrun Perhaps, but it's a smaller problem than it is at Twitter, where if you get booted there's no recourse. A mastodon user can go to another server. Ideally it would be a chastened user starting over; but if they have been unjustly treated, then maybe it's the server they came from that eventually gets a bad reputation.

IDK, it's just a theory, I'm new here too.