They're leaving Musk, but they're not leaving his financial backers, and they're entering into the same kind of "possibly sold to a fascist despot at a moment's notice" situation they just left.
It's short sighted, perfirmative, and doesn't actually make the Internet better at all. It just tells us that people prefer a closed Internet owned by billionaires.
Money is power, and people with money like to habe power.
If someone else is pulling in more money, you're going to find yourself with less power.
Let me talk to you about a little hidden gem known as Skyrim...
Arguing that wanting to have sex with a minor is anything but is a take, and definitely has me glad Boost supports user tagging.
Running from one platform backed by people who supported Trump, right into another one. Gotta love controlled opposition and the illusion of choice.
Right. So, no software ever, then. Even if you have a license that grants you perpetual usage rights, that doesn't extend to anyone else shouldering the responsibility of perpetual hosting.
Your right to use software does not give you the right to expect others to store your digital junk for you.
A big issue with the 2022 signup wave was the influx of new Masto websites, run by new admins. The subscription model of ActivityPub meant they were mostly contentless, and they weren't seeded by knowledgeable users. People needed to understand the basics of federation to find anything because nothing was being syndicated on those sites.
And then a bunch of them shut down when admins who were ok hosting hundreds of like-minded users suddenly had thousands of generalist users flooding their sites.
It was major human infrastructure failure.
And that was as a whole bunch of tenured users started getting hostile over people not adopting the idiosyncratic nettiquite of the was-niche-only-yesterday space. The server blocks started rolling out, and people needed to understand the idea of "federation" (and, apparently, "the Internet") to understand why they were being "denied access" to the cranky people, trolls, and unmoderated spaces.
The truth is, most people don't like the internet. They like the simple, streamlined process of just being owned by corporate interests. Walles gardens work for them in a way public parks never will.
Inviting further genocide is not punishing him for the genocide. He didn't play the strong man and step on a country America went and deeply intertwined itself in. So, instead, y'all held your smug, self-satisfied, fart sniffing noses high and let someonw who has championed the genocide take the reigns once more because yoh wrongly believe not touching the switch gets you out of the trolly problem.
Uh, probably the default web interface. And Masto servers still lack quite a bit of functionality found on other fedi services.
That is not moderation. Moderation involves removing bad actors from the site, not underground black lists that let you pretend the Nazis aren't living next door.
Mastodon has local and global feeds, and has for years. Did you just sit in your home feed and wonder where all the stuff you haven't subscribed to was?
To a platform that has been on the record about not kicking ouy Nazis, though.