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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by egypturnash on Saturday August 18, 2018 @05:23PM (#17790809)
As a Mastodon instance admin, you just made an argument for me to never have a clearly-defined and legally-binding policy. Thanks.

The main thrust of my user agreement is "hi I am queer lady who is out of patience with people being jerks and wants a nice place to talk, if you piss me off you can go find a new instance or start your own". It's not much more formal than that, either.

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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by twblalock on Saturday August 18, 2018 @06:23PM (#17791163)
Sounds more arbitrary and a lot worse than Twitter’s policy.
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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by egypturnash on Saturday August 18, 2018 @06:56PM (#17791312)
shrug

You want a more lawyer-like policy with tons of explicit rules for people to try and work around, then run it yourself.

You trust your admin to not screw you over the same way you trust, say, the people who run that chill coffeehouse you’re a regular at.

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Re:Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch by ivan_gammel on Sunday August 19, 2018 @02:53AM (#17792967)
Coffeehouse is heavily regulated. There's consumer rights protection, all sorts of safety inspections etc. The only thing that requires your trust in a coffeehouse is the quality of their coffee and the only damage you'll get with the breach of that trust is the price of a cup. Being banned from a social network harms you more than that.
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