Federation is precisely what makes this situation tolerable. Even if the flagship instance ends up doing censorship, they can’t impose it on the whole network. This kind of stuff is a perfect illustration of why people should prefer Mastodon to Bluesky.
Mastodon is federated like we are, we should be speficic about the instance in question.
It’s mastodon.social, the “flagship” instance run by Website Boy himself.
whom?
Federation is precisely what makes this situation tolerable. Even if the flagship instance ends up doing censorship, they can’t impose it on the whole network. This kind of stuff is a perfect illustration of why people should prefer Mastodon to Bluesky.