While I appreciate the effort that goes into providing a healthy and non toxically social environment, I would prefer if admins did not keep a copy of my password.

If the user being banned were serial killers and criminals, it would be one thing. But because of the nature of smaller communities, I've been a part of communities who ban users for liberal viewpoints. That almost entirely defeats the purpose of a platform of social liberals.

So unless there are other ways they're removing profile information, emptying your posts, and so on (all are pure abuses on power that would make more authoritarian people proud), I don't feel comfortable with the idea of people keeping a copy of my password to misuse it.

Someone may be a bonevolent dictator in once instance, or they could be sold out by the NSA, and purge your information simply for disparaging the US imperial policy. You really can't know if admins are allowed to have your information.:/

But it seems like a huge security issue.

@LWFlouisa Admins on mastodon do not have access to your password and at no point is your password stored on the servers as far as i know. What makes you think it is?

@freemo It's just how certain instances were able to ban me for ... basically trivial reasons, with no obvious method they're able to do so, unless there is some method I haven't considered.

And to me, an admin shouldn't be able to do just do on a whim, such as political reasons.

If someone is threatening Margaret Thatcher, that's one thing. Because someone believes in a free market, and another believes in a capitalist free society, that's not threatening Margaret Thatcher. It's just not.

And it's so hard just to make your own instance anyway, it makes banning for political reasons that much more egregious to me.

For hackers.town in particular, I was banned just because I was apparently being off topic.

That's an overly vague and unspecific reason.

@LWFlouisa I'm confused, you seemed to have an issue with them keeping your password. What does banning you have to do with keeping someone's password? Those seem unrelated.

@freemo Well I assumed it's they're able to sign into my own account to delete my posts and ban me. Otherwise there must be some feature I'm missing, being unable to create my own instance.

@LWFlouisa I can ban someone, mark their posts as sensative, and delete posts, all without logging into their account. You can do it from the admin console. At no point can I obtain a users password and at no point does the server or software store a copy of your password, not even to verify login.