So far, @otheruser@custom.website is probably @gamergater@assholes.town in practice. If you're happy with having people like that show up in your mentions, the

So far, @otheruser@custom.website is probably @gamergater@assholes.town in practice. If you're happy with having people like that show up in your mentions, then you're quite free to go find an instance that is "focused on free speech" that will cheerfully federate toots from brownshirt.party, angrywhiteboysontheintern.et, and babyrape.horse. Personally I consider this a feature, not a bug. Nonetheless, it seems to have been been fixed in the latest release of Mastodon: https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422 https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-and-the-w3c-f75f376f422 As to the "social graph is not portable" problem, this one applies to every single social network. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, that app your kid* downloaded yesterday that you've never heard of but will be constantly told is the Hot New Place All The Teens Are Going next year, all of these social networks face this problem.