Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.

this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?

This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.

Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.

https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818

@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship

This post has now hit the #1 spot on hacker news with over 500 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304275

@zleap Please do, this is a big deal IMO

@zleap You are welcome to copy any of my post you'd like.

@zleap @freemo on the plus side, I have never heard of Mastodon until today, so the article is bringing in new people

@zleap @freemo Boosted my status?

@FatherLot

Indeed I did.

@zleap

@freemo @zleap Sorry, what does that mean?

@FatherLot

similar to a retoot or reshare.

@zleap

@freemo @zleap Got it... Thx. New place. New terms to learn