I see the situation you described in the last paragraph as a very real possibility. Not going to defend Twitter, but at least it can’t ban whole organized commu

I see the situation you described in the last paragraph as a very real possibility. Not going to defend Twitter, but at least it can’t ban whole organized communities at once. Mastodon’s federation that is left up to instance admins to decide on is bad design. I would prefer to use an instance that has no control over who I can follow. As an added benefit, this instance wouldn’t have to fully federate with every instance I follow users from, so wouldn’t add all updates to the federated feed. This way the instance would only be responsible for user identities but would not have much control over who its users can follow. I still don’t fully understand why Mastodon did not choose this design.