• xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 days ago

    So you didn’t get the choice at all? I guess people who sign up this way are going to be really confused why they can’t follow some accounts their friends can.

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      2 days ago

      You can choose. But you don’t have to.

      The official Mastodon app has a box where you can pick one out of several hard-coded instances. It defaults to mastodon.social. You can pick a different instance if you want to. But you can also ignore it, scroll past it and let yourself be conveniently railroaded to mastodon.social without even knowing what an instance is.

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      3 days ago

      Better than no one having the ability to follow that person because a centrally controlled social media banned them.

      • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 days ago

        But worse than anyone being able to follow that person because they’re using a platform where moderation is separate from identity, as in AtProto.

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          3 days ago

          You are misrepresenting it. You would still run into this issue. Moderation being separate doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You will still not be able to follow someone your friends follow because your moderation service banned then.