Watching @janboehm on #ZDFMagazin right now 👀
@Gargron Newb here. What are Mastodon's policies regarding the sort of hate speech that defines Gab & the other hard-right social media platforms?
@RWB_writer
"Mastodon" is just a type of server on the Fediverse. There are thousands of Fediverse servers. Some run Mastodon, others run Pleroma, etc. It's more of a supernetwork rather than a "platform".
Each server has their own set of rules. There is not "official" or "central" server, they're all interconnected at each other's descretion.
The server you're on, mastodon.social, shows its rules here:
https://mastodon.social/about/more
See also:
https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
@RWB_writer
I might add that the point of Federation is to allow people to settle on servers which suit their level of sensitivity, and to create a supernetwork which is organically connected, instead of one massive central network (Twitter) which tries to moderate and please everyone equally (and fails miserably).
