Free Speech according to the idea of mostly left-wing oriented operators of Mastodon instances means to permanently exclude at least 500 instances worldwide from the federation because of "wrong opinions".
It took me more than a week of intensive research to find the part of Fediverse that was locked out by the Federation.
Mastodon, contrary to all praise, is degenerating into an even more censored platform than Twitter and Facebook combined.
https://gist.github.com/yetzt/32c754fbe87009f8c161f40541147c70
My instance is on the list... Quite an honor.
I have been operating ~18 months, and have had 3 reports. And they got the reply; "If you think the posts break the law, then please contact the authorities alternatively raise a civil suit against the user."
The speech-sensitive snowflakes were;
mastodon.online
mastodon.social
yiff.life
There is a "secret group" consisting of mainly German, left-wing & socialist-oriented Mastodon admins (instance operators) who specify who, ergo which instance in the Fediverse is to be blocked.
I know someone who has access to this group.
Admins or instance operators who do not follow the prescribed block list and other rules are branded (with their instance).
This is fascism in its purest form.
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
