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:mastodon: We created an important issue and discussion about the problematic moderation behaviour of mastodon.social. Normally we do not interfere with the moderation of another server, but because most new users will end up on mastodon.social, we think it's of great importance for the Mastodon project to speak-out.

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>> Move the Mastodon flagship to a more neutral jurisdiction

>> Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new Mastodon server in a more neutral jurisdiction, which can then serve as a new flagship server.

The trigger for this is the regular negative moderation of people who speak out against the largest and bloodiest genocide of our time, the one in Palestine. In particular they use (or abuse, how you want to look at it) of a German law that seeks to counter so-called Holocaust reversal. With hiding behind this law, the moderators of mastodon.social (and especially its owner) are also unwittingly sitting in the chair of the (German) judge. […]

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[https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34747, https://github.com/mastodon/joinmastodon/issues/923, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios]

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