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Presumably I am allowed to run my own private Mastodon instance, administer it by my own whims, and arbitrarily limit federation with the rest of the Fediverse

Presumably I am allowed to run my own private Mastodon instance, administer it by my own whims, and arbitrarily limit federation with the rest of the Fediverse as it pleases me, right? So I suppose y'all can pretend twitter.com is using Mastodon on the backend in a similar way. The folks who rage-quitted recently simply disinvited themselves from that particular party. Everybody are within their rights. Have fun tooting at the cool kids table. :) Edit: If someone is confused about the word tooting, that is not my term. Elon is a big meanie, and you are very cool.

vidarh 4y ago
> Presumably I am allowed to run my own private Mastodon instance, administer it by my own whims, and arbitrarily limit federation with the rest of the Fediverse as it pleases me, right? Well, yes, Truth Social and Counter Social are examples of that. Gab is (or was?) also Mastodon, though very broadly blocked. That does however not mean that it's not newsworthy how well interop works or doesn't work because it'll inform users about what choices to make.