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Re:Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday January 23, 2021 @02:20PM (#25885232)
The only reason people care about Facebook disabling their account is because Facebook has all the users and their data in its silo. In Mastodon, A disabling federation with B isn’t really the same sort of problem because it’s not a global action across the network.

What A defederating from B is like a website blocking your IP. Facebook banning an account is more like your ISP turning off your internet access.

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Re:Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them by 29083011397778 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @06:26PM (#25887093)
In theory, absolutely. In practice, I've heard of major instances using their power to dictate "If you federate with $out-group, we won't federate with you". Most admins want to federate with other major (mostly good, popular) federations, so they capitulate.

As such, being kicked from one instance leads you to sign up elsewhere, until a major instance notices and tells your new server admin to kick you out. When you create your own instance, the major instances use their soft power to ensure almost nobody else federates with you.

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