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What is very instructive is to contrast this case with another social media thing that happened this weekend. On Saturday the Russian gov sent @stux an abuse request that one of the accounts on mstdn.social be removed.

Stux immediately published the notice (https://mstdn.social/@stux/113652461647125214) making very very clear his intent to defy it. When his hosting company backed him up, he published that (https://mstdn.social/@stux/113662573364116275). And now he is trolling the Russians (https://mstdn.social/@stux/113663848550211035).

A profile in courage!

You might say; yes but mstdn.social is based in the Netherlands with servers in Europe, while #Bluesky is a US company with its servers in the the US. It's not the same thing. And, the answer is that you are exactly right.

On the day after the election @Gargron posted (https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/113435032790351172): "I think it's going to be more important than ever that #Mastodon and the #fediverse are not centrally operated out of the US unlike almost every other social media platform out there."

Case in point.

@rainercade

Presumably the FCC could slap fines on them, and/or haul them into court. The US Government has all sorts of powers of enforcement.

@mastodonmigration They would have to do it at the ISP level I guess!? I suppose Mastodon would be fairly 'safe' due to the high number of servers! Bluesky will find itself in the cross hairs no matter what as Musk will be after them! So they should give them the two fingers and setup the 'safe' community they promised!?

@rainercade

That is precisely the issue. This seems to be shaping up as a test of the courage of their convictions.

Of course, it is not a simple matter. Defense of lawsuits and or regulatory action could be very expensive. They do not have deep pockets. Such a prospect would be terrifying, which is indeed the point.

@mastodonmigration interesting problem this, I’ve seen people saying let’s just block the trolls but that isn’t easy en masse .. it’s a problem ‘any’ successful network will face…

@kcsorenby

Yes. Think this is spot on. Every CEO dreads a process server at the door. Legal expenses could quickly suck up all their VC money.

@joeinwynnewood @rainercade

The next post in the thread is brutal... "decentralization-washing", followed by the observation that it wasn't intentional. Whew.

@mastodonmigration @joeinwynnewood @rainercade This entire is eye-opening and bananas and scary af. SO glad that:

1. I’m here on #Mastodon
2. I reclaimed a bunch of my time and sanity when I nuked my Xitter account
3. I decided not to create a new account on Bluesky
4. I wound up on Mstsn.social … thanks for the reminder @mastodonmigration that I need to donate a some bucks to @stux!

@mastodonmigration @stux

That being said I guess #hetzner refused to side with #Roskomnadzor after they had done so in the past more than once is surprising to me...

@mastodonmigration @stux I've thus updated the blocklist and I do know for a fact that at least two ISPs ingest that into their CI/CD pipeline...

• I just can't name them as their staff contacted me under the demand of anonymity and they also only pull it as their upstream once a day... ^

@WizardBear

You are indeed fortunate to be on such a great instance. But, you don't need to be a member of mstdn.social to value of efforts of independent Mastodon server administrators. Here is @stux Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/mstdn, if you want to show some appreciation.

@mastodonmigration @WizardBear @stux I just dropped a few euros in the support of @stux a principled and committed Administrator.

@WizardBear @mastodonmigration @stux @brad Same here

@stopthatgirl7

Hmmmm... just retested and still seems to work.

https://www.advocate.com/business/bluesky-jesse-singal

@mastodonmigration This one works! Thanks!

@kkarhan

Hmmm... see your point. 'Activist' can have a positive connotation, and that is certainly not the intention. What's a better word than 'activist'?

Edited to 'podcaster' for now to align with the article.

Thanks for the comment.

@mastodonmigration I'd say "#Hatespeaker" or "#Hateposter" would be more on point, but you do you...

@dalias

It always seemed very aspirational.

@mastodonmigration It would have been "aspirational" if the design admitted a path to becoming that. Instead it was just fraudulent.

@dalias

Not gonna argue. Never really made much sense.

Now whether some of them believed their own PR? Can't really say.

@joeinwynnewood @mastodonmigration @Devilstower In a fair and just universe, someone would spike his ketamine, and he falls into a drug induced coma;
(Happy seasonal ending:) where he has his own Dickensian experience, comes back, renounces the right wing, unionizes his companies before turning them into employee owned businesses, gives each of his 300 children a million dollars to apologize, and disperses his money amongst the poor of the world, with special attention to the people his people used to get rich in the emerald mines. He retires, poor but fulfilled to some island paradise.

(Alternate ending) the end.

@MissConstrue @mastodonmigration @Devilstower

May I suggest one edit to the end of the fantasy story?

Uses his $billions to elect a federal government that restores Eisenhower era marginal tax rates on the wealthy and corporations, overturns Citizens United, restores the Voting Rights Act & Roe, and makes DC a state.