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Re:Kanye West is buying Parler by easrng on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:53AM (#33231867)
The fediverse (network of activitypub servers, including mastodon) itself doesn't censor anything at all, but if you don't moderate your instance then other instances might decide to stop federating with you to protect their users.
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Re:Kanye West is buying Parler by luckylion on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:26AM (#33232101)
As far as I understood, they're not doing that on a case-by-case basis, but are using centralized block-lists (which every admin can choose to follow automatically). That's a step up from raw centralized censorship, but it's not a big step.
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Re:Kanye West is buying Parler by easrng on Monday October 17, 2022 @01:10PM (#33236601)
Most admins AFAIK don't have centralized blocklists but when the new bad instances pop up there tend to be #fediblock posts pretty fast, and they get shared pretty widely.
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