“Another question [...] a user who had been banned on Meta should be able to export their content and users and start up again elsewhere on their own Mastodon server.”
I raised this in a conversation recently somewhere, and my gut feeling is "yes", but more specifically not just a "yes via data export" but actually a "yes via Move activity", allowing the banning server to automatically ban their new account from interacting with their server!
@thisismissem my immediate reaction was that this sounds like proposing sort of a one-size-fits-all policy that is exactly what so many of us are looking to escape as we leave behind the big name platforms.
When I glanced at the source article I saw this:
> The goal of integrating with the fediverse is specifically to have Meta users’ content appear in someone else’s mastodon instance, and vice versa.
But THE goal? It's far more complicated than that. There are so many different actors involved here, with their own goals, many of which might even be at odds with each other.
So I think it's the same sort of thing. This is a decentralized platform that allows more diversity, both in goals and in policies. There's no one "should" since different users want different things.
And that's the ax I grind: I think far too few consider empowering end users and instead focus on centralized power structures that dictate The Right policy from their positions.
I think what you're describing there is kind of powerful agents playing games with their power when really I'd rather send that down to users anyway.
