[HollowEyes]

I am partially surprised that the reading portal is the same as the authoring one.

It would feel better if we had one great feed reader, and an authoring pumping station.

The blurred lines makes it more difficult to comprehend as much.

Who moderates offshore content?

[irusensei]

> Who moderates offshore content

Whoever is in the pilot seat and that’s beautiful. Although if things start to get a bit too edgy we might see entire servers blacklisted from store apps. Also server-wide block done by administrators. If I’m not mistaken the largest mastodon instance is Pawoo.net and that’s basically a japanese board for posting controversial hentai artwork. Pawoo.net is blacklisted from most popular Mastodon servers.

[proactivesvcs]

> Although if things start to get a bit too edgy we might see entire servers blacklisted from store apps

I believe - although have not verified lately - that Tusky will not connect to some specific instances that host degenerate people.

I use Fedilab instead.

[irusensei]

Gab comes to mind, before they forked the code to become their own thing. The Tusky case was notable because the app rickrolled users trying to log in to Gab.

[amadeuspagel]

I'd be surprised to learn that it's blacklisted from any feed readers. That illustrates the usefulness of separating reader app and hosting.

[irusensei]

Pretty sure it happened to Gab nodes. In this case justified (and probably with a bit of push from Apple and Google) but the precedent exists.

Slightly related Google blocked Element a few years ago because something posted on a federated instance. I think they strong handed matrix.org to implement moderation on the default servers.