“Right around that 5 November, it was a real opportunity,” Coffey said. “There were a lot of people who were scared, a lot of people who … didn’t want to be in the place Twitter was becoming.
Free speech is good if it's my kind of free speech only, apparently.
They are probably leaving their roach nest because it does not have enough child abuse content that twitter used to have before Musk purged it.
Mastadon was supposed to be free speech too. So they ran from a free speech platform to a free speech platform? That makes no sense.
I think they clearly are moving for the kiddie porn.
Mastodon started as a platform with a blocklist. Eugen didn't like some things, so he blocked them. Mastodon's developer volunteers were notably acidic when asked about making sites work better together, and Eugen nearly had a cow when one of the big Japanese drawn porn sites opened a mastodon instance.
I had an account on the original mastodon.social system, you couldn't see things from certain other *social sites because they were blocked for "reasons," according to Eugen. One of those was the sealion.club site I was using at the time, it was a controversial site because it came out of the hysteria of gamergate, but rapidly settled into a "As long as it's not illegal, you can say it" site.
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