Post #2107266
2026-05-04 04:59 UTC
Replies (2)
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@Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-04 07:12
You’re a fucking AnCap? That explains soooooo much.
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@sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-05-04 12:05
only recourse is to move one’s account to another place in hopes of finding more benevolent admins and more protective content moderation. Being able to move one’s account to another place within Mastodon is usually praised as a feature. When it comes to digital safety however, it is not. It relegates minorities to a digital life on the run, hoping for safety in a system that has no mechanism to actually enforce it. Maybe some day we’ll come up with a technical solution that allows communities to group-administer fediverse servers, but until then, most of us are depending on the goodwill of server admins who let their users access services for free, and do all the work of maintaining the server. Being able to vote with your feet and create your own server seems so different than a “digital life on the run”. The idea of a fediverse alliance where admins group together and create a community between instances is a good one though. There is a start to that with stuff like fediblock, but it is still mostly in the benevolent dictatorship model of governance, which I think is hard to get around since it is a lot of work to administer a server, even moreso if it were democratically run, and most of us users depend on free access.