Post #2752972

2026-04-20 06:02 UTC

@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.

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@markus_quandt@mastodon.green 2026-04-20 06:06

@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green @ORIOliver@newsie.social @JohanEmpa@mastodon.green I guess part of the worry about losing all connections comes from the name of the affected instance? "mastodon.cloud" sure sounds very generic and important. But it is just another village...

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@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green 2026-04-20 06:56

@markus_quandt@mastodon.green @ORIOliver@newsie.social @JohanEmpa@mastodon.green Thank you. This is a brilliant explanation that helps me visualise how this thing works. I came over here to move away from the toxicity of X and FB and it's been nothing short of fabulous. But I had no idea how it worked! :-) So, it only means I can't communicate with folk who have mastodon.cloud as their suffix. That's not so bad. Thanks again. I do really appreciate it.

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