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Author Name: Alec Muffett
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mastodon – Dropsafe

2025-08 

1/ FOO=Mastodon/ActivityPub, BAR=infosec.exchange

2/ FOO=AT-Proto, BAR=Bluesky

3/ FOO=Email, BAR=Gmail

I suspect that losing your Gmail account would be considered deplatforming, so why not your Mastodon account?

I have, perhaps unsurprisingly, received some pushback from Mastodon users who are saying approximately that “if someone gets kicked off a server for something they said somewhere else, it’s entirely fine and they can just go and create a new server for themselves, it’s not like they have been deplatformed”

I think this is demonstrably nonsense, simply by analogy.

Hence the above; what do you think?
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