Post #2752971
2026-04-20 05:56 UTC
@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green @ORIOliver@newsie.social @JohanEmpa@mastodon.green It did sound a little snappy :blobcat_winking:
I am no expert myself, but hope the answer is correct enough to be useful. Mastodon is based on 'federation' of instances. Think of your instance as the village you live in, which is connected to neighbouring villages by roads, which again are connected to further villages etc. /1
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@markus_quandt@mastodon.green 2026-04-20 06:02
@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green @ORIOliver@newsie.social @JohanEmpa@mastodon.green Along those roads, toots travel, potentially through the whole network. If now the village 'mastodon.cloud' turns out to often be a source of travellers with bad intents, the majors of other villages can decide to forbid ALL such travellers from m.c. village entry to their own villages. (A difficult decision to make, because m.c. village likely also has good guys...) But it breaks communication only to m.c. village residents, NOT to all the other villages.