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They definitely can, there have been stories here before about e.g. blocking of far-right Mastodon instances.

• pingiun 5y ago
  this is a good thing
  • headsoup 5y ago
    What of the far left then, and the far South? And far East! Can I be the one to choose who gets blocked? Lots of speech is definitely not up to my clearly incredible and most certainly correct intelligence level and should be blocked! /s
• kixiQu 5y ago
  > there have been stories here before about e.g. blocking of far-right Mastodon instances. See: > they can't disconnect you, they can disconnect the account you have on their server There's nothing stopping you from having an alt on a different server that does connect to fascism.social or what-have-you, and the apps these days are pretty good about switching among alts so the UX isn't bad. I will also note, the "stories here" tend to focus on corner cases: instance blocking is predominantly reactive (with Gab being the big exception) and you can always just run your own instance if you want to control your own moderation. I run my own and haven't had any problems with instance blocking. And again -- if you do end up on a server that implements a block you don't like, you can just move (which transfers your followers) https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#move https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#move