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Mastodon itself doesn't, but maybe he's referring to Tusky, a popular FOSS Mastodon client, preventing its users from logging in with an account tied to an alt-

Mastodon itself doesn't, but maybe he's referring to Tusky, a popular FOSS Mastodon client, preventing its users from logging in with an account tied to an alt-right instance (gab and a few others I think). They used to also filter any content coming from these accounts but I can't it in the code so they must have removed that part. As for the login block itself it's there: https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/blob/01b3cb3a53b1e08ed26e747ddbddb1e7b891ce9d/app/src/main/java/com/keylesspalace/tusky/components/login/LoginActivity.kt#L163-L165 https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/blob/01b3cb3a53b1e08ed26e7... For a while F-Droid considered forcing all clients to implement such a ban but in the end they decided against it, see https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

commoner 3y ago
Gab is not a Mastodon instance because its code base has been altered to the point that it no longer federates with any Mastodon instance or fediverse service, so that line of criticism is outdated at best. While Tusky has a great user interface, it is just one of many Mastodon clients and it is not developed by the Mastodon team. Also, Gab has a lot of content that is prohibited on Twitter, but allowed on a self-hosted instance of Mastodon. Mastodon would actually be of "greater openness" than Twitter in the case of Gab's content.