(not familiar with Mastodon tech) Would I be able to move my social graph as well in your example, or just content? E.g. if I first registered an account at mastodon.se and many other mastodon.se users followed me, would they still see my updates if I move to a different instance (or if I am banned from mastodon.se)?

I just migrated myself from mastodon.social to a self-hosted instance. After a few minutes my followers all ported over fine.

Is it fair to say that now if I follow you on any instance and then you are banned from that instance, I will continue following you and seeing your posts because your identity is owned by your self-hosted instance?

That's a really odd way of looking at open source software.

Mastodon is just an interface for the larger Fediverse network. It does not control the network any more than Microsoft Outlook controls the email network.

Similarly, email is a "nazi friendly" technology. Are you going to not use email because of that? It's not reasonable to base every choice in your life around whether a "nazi" could potentially make the same choice.

> Mastodon needs to do something to combat that.

If only there was a decentralized social network where you can choose who to federate with...

> technology that is nazi friendly.

Is Windows already banning all nazi users?