[dgb23]

It's not a restriction of freedom of speech. This is just exercising freedom of association.

"If you're an asshole, I won't broadcast your stuff."

People are still free to be assholes, but the platform is free to not associate themselves with the assholes.

Very simple.

[Kye]

It's even open source. Anyone who disagrees with the project's listing policy can make their own list.

https://source.joinmastodon.org/mastodon/joinmastodon