Mastodon Federation Moderation

What you're describing is basically Mastodon and the ability for instances to federate or not.

I'm active with Mastodon and absolutely love its moderation model. In a nutshell:- It's made up of a bunch of independent servers, or "instances". The common analogy here is to email systems.- If you want to join the federation, stand up an instance and start using it. Voila! Now you're part of it.- My instance has a lot of users, and I don't want to run them off, so it's in my own interest to moderate my own instance in a way that my community likes.

The fediverse (network of activitypub servers, including mastodon) itself doesn't censor anything at all, but if you don't moderate your instance then other instances might decide to stop federating with you to protect their users.

IMO this is why federation is an important aspect of decentralized networks, and is commonly listed as a reason for use Mastodon / the fediverse. Each instance can set their own moderation policies and decide what other instances they want to federate with. Notably mastodon.social and the instances related to it haven't become cess pools of hate speech, because they do have strong moderation policies, but for users who want to post that stuff there are other instances they can find.

There exist a number of self-described free speech extremist instances, and moderated instances that only blacklist spammers like bot servers. There also exist instances that will blacklist servers with high levels of hate speech. You can pick or create an instance that meets your wants and needs, but other instances can exercise their freedom of association and choose not to federate with you.Things on the fediverse are also less black-and-white than you're portraying them. Some instanc

I have been using mastodon for years and what I've observed is that most instances will basically ban/blacklist "free speech/hate speech" instances. I guess those servers start to federate amongst themselves or stay unfederated. Personally found it to be working well, i never saw content i didn't want to see.

Mastodon is federated, but by running an instance just for yourself you give up on per-instance culture

Mastodon is federated, which means everyone can start a instance. There will always be instances not controlled by the government and you cannot chase everyone.

It seems to me like you don't understand the crucial difference between Twitter and Mastodon.There's no such thing as Mastodon, a singular social network. Mastodon is a series of instances that talk to each other. A sysadmin running the instance can do whatever he pleases in his instance, including closing the registration, banning entire instances from communicating with his instance, and enforcing whichever rules he wants to enforce.Mastodon doesn't deal with such issues a

All of his complaints are intentional.* There is intentionally no global search. Mastodon is about conversation among people, not about searching out every single person in the entire fediverse who mentions your name or a topic you want to argue about so you can argue with them.* Mastodon instances can intentionally choose to not federate with other instances. This is why, even though people regularly bring up that there are servers full of Nazis on Mastodon, you never see them. Because ev