> Federated distributed servers > Refuse to federate with certain servers because of content > Somehow different from the status quo So we end up with a balkan

> Federated distributed servers > Refuse to federate with certain servers because of content > Somehow different from the status quo So we end up with a balkanized sea of Mastodon servers with arbitrary interconnection. How this becomes a compelling Facebook competitor to all but a tiny minority is not obvious to me. Groups may as well set up their own bulletin board sites each with their own vision of allowed content. I.e. what we have now.