I'll miss a few things about Twitter.
Mostly the fact that with a little sleuthing, you could find on every account which ones Twitter believed were Nazis or Nazi-adjacent. Because for German legal compliance reasons, they had to filter those accounts for German users, so there was a little metadata you could fetch via the API that told you if a given tweet or entire account was Germany-noncompliant.
@mtomczak I guess I take for granted my privilege here of not having to worry that what I say is legal or not.
@obi If the Mastodon federated network grows to the size of Twitter, it will be interesting to see how nations respond.
Compliance enforcement is a bit harder (of course) with a distributed network, but the laws haven't changed so they'll certainly try. The only reason, I assume, they haven't already is the userbase wasn't large enough relative to its competition for regulators to care.
@mtomczak @obi I think in case of Mastodon, there is not a "Mastodon" to turn to for doing that kind of censorship. I think, in a legal sense, that's not something the software vendor has to deal with, and Mastodon is only the software. They will have to send their legal letters about the issue to the instance owners, because they are the ones that provide the service and host the content, so it will definitely be more difficult to enforce.
@mtomczak Yeah, that makes sense. I guess the question is how would they enforce it? Only option I can think of is the national banning of that domain, which looks horrible.