> Mastodon is proof at least that federation doesn't fix the issue of censorship. There's a common ban list in Mastodon that if you don't include, you will not

> Mastodon is proof at least that federation doesn't fix the issue of censorship. There's a common ban list in Mastodon that if you don't include, you will not be able to join the "main" Mastodon cluster. That's nonsense. I run my own instance and don't use any sort of ban list, and I can interact just fine with both the "main" instances, and a whole host of smaller, more niche, instances.