@FediTips @janggolan I just realized you were part of the threads.net defederation pile-on too. I actually followed you early in the Twitter migration, but haven’t kept up with all your posts. This block-happy, big-brother, demonizing approach seems infantilizing—which you've shown contempt for. It strips users of their own choices. People will just move on to other services; the only thing it hinders is ActivityPub’s growth. Maybe that’s the point.

@FediTips The admin’s main account is @Sujiyan, boosted from @TheAdmin. Their last post was on August 7, 2025. Hopefully, concerned Fedizens are motivated to work toward constructive solutions with them.

@FediTips I would have preferred a warning that there’s no official contingency plan if a large instance is abandoned—users are left to safeguard their data and reputations against norm enforcing vigilantes. This seems at odds with the promise that Mastodon and ActivityPub are people-centric.

@toriver @FediTips A Mastodon instance is a PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION. There are laws around the world addressing common-carriers or gatekeeping regulation of digital platforms.

@FediTips It has become routine for viral posts to rally a mob into blocking entire instances—thousands of accounts—over a few bad interactions. While this may feel empowering for in-groups or those with large followings, it fosters a toxic environment. In this case, a dependable, useful, and constructive instance is being demonized and ostracized.

@toriver @FediTips Musk and his allies used that argument to rationalize the abuse of his employees and users. I disagree that anyone has the right to abuse other humans even in their house. Social disenfranchisement—cutting people off from public services—is abuse. Most on this platform did nothing wrong. A few bad interactions can’t justify punishing everyone.

@toriver @FediTips Most people on the service are regular social media users, but here this mob is demonizing the whole instance as a "cesspool" and executing a totalitarian cleansing of everyone on the service.

@FediTips Collective punishment is unethical. Rule violations are best handled individually, not through broad blocks by association. Mastodon.cloud, despite lighter moderation, has remained open and interoperable for years—unlike other instances that block hundreds of millions of accounts hosted on popular services and eventually shut down.