Board:   [DoveNet] Internet Discussion
Subject: Re: Mastodon - wich serve
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Sat Jan 24, 2026 09:59

Subject: Re: Mastodon - wich server to
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Subject: Re: Mastodon - wich server to
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-=> Arelor wrote to Adovka <=-

 Ar> It is intended to work as a federation, like you described, but the
 Ar> software guys behind it really, really want their political opponents
 Ar> out of the race, so there is a lot of preasure in the software stack
 Ar> itself in order to root uncensoredservers out. This is the reason why
 Ar> you see so many Mastodont clients include hardcoded lists of servers
 Ar> they are notprogrammed to interact with, for example.

I've *never* seen a Mastodon client that had a hardcoded list. I'bve
played with several under Android, and there's a field to specify the
user name with server name in there, not a pull-down or otherwise
limitedlist.

How does the software root uncensored servers out, exactly?




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