alecm on Nostr: ## QUESTION FOR DISCUSSION: where FOO is a distributed protocol, can one ever be ...

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QUESTION FOR DISCUSSION: where FOO is a distributed protocol, can one ever be truly “deplatformed” by BAR, where BAR is an instance of FOO?1/ FOO=Mastodon/ActivityPub, BAR=infosec.exchange

2/ FOO=AT-Proto, BAR=Bluesky

3/ FOO=Email, BAR=Gmail

I have, perhaps unsurprisingly, received some pushback from Mastodon users who are saying approximately that *“if someone gets kicked off a server for something they said somewhere else, it’s entirely fine and they can just go and create a new server for themselves, it’s not like they have been deplatformed”*

I think this is demonstrably nonsense, simply by analogy. Hence the above.

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