@darius I think he has a valid point here, though....

@darius I think he has a valid point here, though. If an often nameless and entirely unaccountable instance admin can wipe your account just like that, it could make for some very abusive power dynamics.

I’m left of this writer politically and have sworn off #Twitter for reasons he states. I’m unwilling to provide content to some billionaire narcissist playboy. This is it for me.

But we do ourselves no favors to pretend there aren’t issues with #Mastodon.

Quotation from the article: “But what about those people who are now setting up permanent digital camp at Mastodon, deleting their Twitter accounts and putting all their social media eggs into a single, mammoth basket? How would you feel if you had spent a year posting on Mastodon only to be banned from it because you linked to another social media platform? Heck, as many hear it Post have pointed out lately and as I already pointed out above, Post is at this point almost defined by a large number of people linking to Twitter, which I am sure is a trend that will diminish over time but is certainly not one Noam or any member of his team even has any strong opinion on let alone would deign to police; can you imagine a single link to Twitter or Post on Mastodon getting you banned from that site after you’ve been using it long-term, putting all your energies into being part of one of its micro-communities? It is unthinkable. I imagine it would feel a bit like a digital assassination.”

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