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@doliu666 @SecondJon I‘m new to Mastodon and haven‘t seen any discussions about free speech yet. But I understand that Mastodon is all about the ability for instance administrators to block entire other instances. It’s all about block chains which are aggregated lists of instances to block passed around between administrators. It’s all about rules about active moderation policies that instances have to implement if they want to be listed on joinmastodon. Effectively those rules include which block chains to use. Essentially Mastodon is all about strategies of forcing free speech instances into isolation. It’s all about collective censorship, because instances give identity and users become invisible in the Fediverse if their instance are put in those block chains due to the activities of other users. Mastodon is about all this being it’s core feature. It has no centralized moderation but it inherently creates social tribes by massive overblocking. It is a tool and a culture designed to quiet people in order to give some the protected space that Twitter can’t and isolate the others into “free speech” instance clusters.

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The conflict seems to me to be : the tool is built for federation. The culture is about isolation.

Seems like an inherent conflict from the source.
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