Carighan Maconar

Ah, that’d in part explain why mastodon would readily kick him off, yes.

That a tiny minority might have heard the name before (“bestselling” really doesn’t mean as much as some people think).

Yeah I mean, durr. We knew from reddit et al that this’d happen, and since here it’s not a central platform it’ll be more so. Everyone is their own little dictator, after all.

The issue is more that people talk others into going into the fediverse in particular to avoid moderation abuse on bigger platforms. You do, but you only avoid facebook moderation abuse if you leave facebook. So long as you go anywhere else, you’ll get moderation abused there, sooner or later. The mod abuse is just a natural element of it, unless we’d get a publicly (as in, the people, not a single individual or entity) owned system.

Ja bin ich dabei, ich kenn den Spiegel seit >30 Jahren inzwischen und hab noch nie von dem Typen gehört.