@rob @M_uWu_ssolini @Bro-Drillard @DW2 @Ghislaine I think something a lot of people who have never run an instance also don't get is this; you can in fact go into Mastodon settings and whitelist specific servers, which some of the most culty canceldon servers do. Or you can just whitelist nothing and get a completely siloed, non-federated instance like Truth Social, Gab, or a company creating their own "internal Twitter". Pleroma has a similar "federation" switch as well.