It’s the same kind of extortion racket that these powermods (they do it for free, lol) like to engage in in Reddit and Lemmy too: Play ball, or get banned/defederates for engaging with no-no communities.
And the worst part about it is they genuinely think they do it for a greater good instead of their petty power fantasies and power struggles (“we own this corner of the internet.”)
It works in both directions. I’ve been shadowbanned from mastodon.social because one user misinterpreted my comment about something political (related to Germany), reported me and apparently their (German) mod was either lazy or followed the same misinterpretation and shadowbanned me - for life.
And there’s no way to object this as their support only answers to members. Which I am not.
Sounds like a way for users to protect themselves against random admins who might defederate a whole server on a whim.
The article’s author made an argument against the point he’s making.
It’s the same kind of extortion racket that these powermods (they do it for free, lol) like to engage in in Reddit and Lemmy too: Play ball, or get banned/defederates for engaging with no-no communities.
And the worst part about it is they genuinely think they do it for a greater good instead of their petty power fantasies and power struggles (“we own this corner of the internet.”)
It works in both directions. I’ve been shadowbanned from mastodon.social because one user misinterpreted my comment about something political (related to Germany), reported me and apparently their (German) mod was either lazy or followed the same misinterpretation and shadowbanned me - for life.
And there’s no way to object this as their support only answers to members. Which I am not.