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> I think the main issue a media company like the BBC has with moderation, is that they want to discourage harassment of their employees That's certainly one i

> I think the main issue a media company like the BBC has with moderation, is that they want to discourage harassment of their employees That's certainly one issue, but there are many others. Owning your own Mastodon server should make it easier to find a solution compared to having to use Twitter's tools. > It would end up the way some people say today, "You can't run your own email server" because Google and Microsoft There are more trusted email servers than just those two. Fastmail, Apple, Yahoo all come to mind. Albeit that's not the perfectly distributed model, I would rather an oligopoly like that than just Twitter. Highlighting ways in which Mastodon is not utopia isn't a valid reason to stick with what we've got.

nirimda 4y ago
My comment was not highlighting ways in which Mastodon isn't a utopia and it certainly wasn't an argument to stick with what we've got. It is dismaying to think someone might have read it that way. I was trying to make some constructive criticism and analysing possible usecases and possible consequences, while very clearly requesting more information about whether the possible usecases are fulfilled yet or not. > There are more trusted email servers than just those two. Fastmail, Apple, Yahoo all come to mind. My comment completely survives this pedantry. In fact, I can hardly think of any way whatsoever that such pedantry weakens my argument in any degree, or could be thought to speak to any of my concerns.