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You're looking at this from the wrong angle. You do have control here. You do select your moderator, and you do have the power to change that. You select whic
by rolenthedeep 4y ago
You're looking at this from the wrong angle.
You do have control here. You do select your moderator, and you do have the power to change that.
You select which server your account lives on. If you disagree with the admin at such a fundamental level, this is probably not the right server for you. You can simply select another server.
You also have the option to run your own server. It's not hard to handle just a few accounts, and there's even places you can pay to host and configure it for you. I know several people running their own servers, and a few of them just have one account.
Let's compare to Tumblr for a second. They've had a wild ride with content moderation over the years, and this has led many people to leave the platform. Those people lost their accounts and their followers forever with no recourse. If your mastodon moderator starts getting scared by nipples, you can simply migrate to a new server and keep all your followers.
The real trick about mastodon is that you can take full control if you really want to. However, most of us don't want to deal with running a server, so you just have to trust someone else to do it. If you find a community that matches your interests, it's actually a very pleasant place to be
- the_third_wave 4y agoWhat happens with you "followers" when you change servers? Do they follow along automagically or do they have to undertake action to re-connect to @you@new.server? As to running your own server - something I have been looking in to because I support the decentralisation of the 'net - I am under the impression that Pleroma is a lot easier on the hardware than Mastodon. Does you concur?
- rolenthedeep 4y agoAnyone following your old account will automatically follow the new account. The only thing that does not transfer is your post history, for mostly technical reasons. I don't know anything about pleroma, sorry. I do know that mastodon uses a ton of resources when you get a lot of users, but for <5 you can use anything including a raspberry pi
- phpisthebest 4y agoThis will not happen is the Admin of the server you are one chooses to block the server you want to move to.... Mastodon has long become a political project ever sense their very public dispute with Gab... They ceased to be a neutral project and clearly showed the limitations of the federation space when it comes to putting users in control, as that control is largely symbolic and just like centralized system unless you run your own server, and you do not run afoul of the project dev team so you do not get put on a default deny list then you are not in control of your data
- rolenthedeep 4y agoYou're complaining that you can't migrate your account to a Nazi server. This sounds like a feature, not a bug.
- phpisthebest 4y agoahh yes, everyone you disagree with is a Nazi...... I figured that tired, worn out, dead horse would be dead now but I guess not
- boston_clone 4y ago> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#By_Gab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#By_Gab >> Part of a series on Antisemitism https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew-torba-deactivates-gab-twitter-antisemitism/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/andrew-torba-deactivates-gab-... yeah, kinda checks out.
- the_third_wave 4y ago
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