Why would that be a serious problem? The code is open and it can be hosted by anyone. The moderators of a single instance are nearly meaningless to a federated system. That’s the whole point.
To put it another way, what problems do you think the devs being tankies might cause?
On the main instance they’ve banned a few accounts for comments about human rights abuses in authoritarian-left governments. But it’s true, that’s instance specific. I know that on Mastodon the original instance, mastodon.social, has kind of set the tone for the other instances, so there could be an effect of that sort. Other than that? I’ll just be honest and tell you that I’m not sure. It’s hard to predict these kinds of things. But I agree with feditips that it could be a cause for concern.
I think that’s the cool thing about it though is if we don’t like the host of an instance, we move on to a better one. That will especially apply if they implement importing/exporting accounts like you can in Mastodon. Then you’re REALLY not locked into any one server. I understand what you’re saying, it’s no small deal, but we can let them sit in their own echo chamber, and we go where we feel more comfortable.
Why would that be a serious problem? The code is open and it can be hosted by anyone. The moderators of a single instance are nearly meaningless to a federated system. That’s the whole point.
To put it another way, what problems do you think the devs being tankies might cause?
On the main instance they’ve banned a few accounts for comments about human rights abuses in authoritarian-left governments. But it’s true, that’s instance specific. I know that on Mastodon the original instance, mastodon.social, has kind of set the tone for the other instances, so there could be an effect of that sort. Other than that? I’ll just be honest and tell you that I’m not sure. It’s hard to predict these kinds of things. But I agree with feditips that it could be a cause for concern.
I think that’s the cool thing about it though is if we don’t like the host of an instance, we move on to a better one. That will especially apply if they implement importing/exporting accounts like you can in Mastodon. Then you’re REALLY not locked into any one server. I understand what you’re saying, it’s no small deal, but we can let them sit in their own echo chamber, and we go where we feel more comfortable.