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Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the F (fedi.tips)
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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Mastodon.social is so much larger than other servers, that other servers have become afraid of defederating it.

Sounds like a way for users to protect themselves against random admins who might defederate a whole server on a whim.

The article's author made an argument against the point he's making.

[–] ren@reddthat.com 4 points 11 hours ago

It's the same kind of extortion racket that these powermods (they do it for free, lol) like to engage in in Reddit and Lemmy too: Play ball, or get banned/defederates for engaging with no-no communities.

And the worst part about it is they genuinely think they do it for a greater good instead of their petty power fantasies and power struggles ("we own this corner of the internet.")