100%. I was on the Fediverse years back, and I remembering seeing all these things. Truth is that Mastadon and its substitutes were made to create a decentralized Twitter, not a censorship-resistant platform, typically by and for people who felt that Twitter was not censorious enough.
For example, servers could end up on a server-ban list solely through the actions of one person who created a big enough deal on the global timeline. This could result in you being banned from connecting to your friends' servers through no fault of your own, just being on the same server as a nasty troll who took advantage of open signups - the "bad neighbor problem". Sometimes it wasn't even that bad of a troll, just those on the receiving end couldn't handle it.
These server-ban lists were shared among admins and treated as a best-practice for spam-prevention. This led to a tale of two Fediverses, one for the free-speech servers and one for walled-gardens servers.
Wildfire /
npub1qw…5z7xa
2023-10-10 19:55:19
in reply to nevent1q…9tme
Author Public Key
npub1qwmctugehn9v92fu847frugy0gun6uwmt0nww4hhu8xpcylah4tqc5z7xaPublished at
2023-10-10 19:55:19Event JSON
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"content": "100%. I was on the Fediverse years back, and I remembering seeing all these things. Truth is that Mastadon and its substitutes were made to create a decentralized Twitter, not a censorship-resistant platform, typically by and for people who felt that Twitter was not censorious enough.\n\nFor example, servers could end up on a server-ban list solely through the actions of one person who created a big enough deal on the global timeline. This could result in you being banned from connecting to your friends' servers through no fault of your own, just being on the same server as a nasty troll who took advantage of open signups - the \"bad neighbor problem\". Sometimes it wasn't even that bad of a troll, just those on the receiving end couldn't handle it.\n\nThese server-ban lists were shared among admins and treated as a best-practice for spam-prevention. This led to a tale of two Fediverses, one for the free-speech servers and one for walled-gardens servers.",
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