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When a Mastodon instance chooses to relay another it's like if your email provider could arbitrarily sign you up for mailing lists, in a way that bypasses your
by dleslie 4y ago
When a Mastodon instance chooses to relay another it's like if your email provider could arbitrarily sign you up for mailing lists, in a way that bypasses your mailbox filters. This is something generally unheard of in email land.
- lrvick 4y agoI have hosted public shell accounts and email servers for the public for 20 years and this is just as real of a problem for small community classic internet service providers as it is mastodon servers. If anyone user of your email users gets on a spam list for illegal content, then it gets cached on your servers. Or a shell user simply uploads pirated movies. This is a harsh reality well known to anyone who provides any public internet services. There is illegal content embedded in every blockchain, ipfs, and freenet node, and you cannot easily detect or censor it. Some people will inevitably do disgusting or illegal things with all public internet resources at some point, but we absolutely cannot let such individuals discourage small community hosting which is vital for the survival of the free internet. Decentralized services will always be abused to share CSAM but paradoxically are our only practical defense against giant surveillance capitalism corporations that we -know- are manipulating and selling the behavior of live children at massive scale today.