Right, this is true with any website that you don’t run. dang can come in here and ban whoever he wants for whatever reason. At the end of the day, if you’re go

Right, this is true with any website that you don’t run. dang can come in here and ban whoever he wants for whatever reason. At the end of the day, if you’re going to a platform (specific mastodon instance) ran by someone else, you’ve got to have an amount of trust in who’s running it. But Mastodon and ActivityPub do attempt to mitigate this - you can run your own instance (and of course, you’re not entitled for someone else to republish you) to seize back some of that control. Followers and follows are a lot more portable, so it’s easier to move instances (which is party automated)