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happy last fingers in his ass sunday everyone its been an honor serving w you

it was an honor being horny with you all

im confused as to how there isnt any perceived accountability for the hosting service to allow those people to host from that system at all. am i to understand the mastadon system itself has no control over any of the servers? if so thats not really a system i like for this exact reason. and why is the server hosting service at the higher level not accountable for allowing those things to continue to exist

Because Mastodon doesn’t host anything. Every instance is hosted by individuals, and no instance has any control over other instances. There is an instance called mastodon.social, and it has its own rules for which instances it allows itself to federate with. (It bans other instances that support the kind of stuff we all hate here.) But it’s still just one instance.

Think of Mastodon like a really fancy tumblr theme. It is a set of tools that allow a person to easily set up and host a social media platform that is easily integrated with other websites that use the same tools. Every instance and its servers is owned and paid for by a person, not a corporation. This means that, just like any other website, people can use the tools for hosting illegal and immoral content. It also means that owners of those instances have a lot of control over which other instances they allow themselves to be federated with. Most instances have a list of instances they’ve blocked with the reasons why. I can assure you that most of the mastodon instances have their own rules that disallow illegal content and block instances that allow any kind of hate speech or child pornography.

What you’re asking is that the creators of an open source set of web development tools exhibit total control over its users… kind of like what tumblr is doing to us right now, and has the power to do because it’s privately owned.

peloriq

Please reblog this to fix some of the damage. “Don’t use mastodon because there are bad people there” is like saying “Don’t use the internet because there are bad people there.” There isn’t a Mastodon Entity that has control over its users, and the reason y’all are having such a hard time grasping this is because not enough truly decentralized platforms exist and we’re all content surrendering our social media experience to a for-profit corporation that doesn’t have our best interests in mind.

rneowth

we all know what tumblr’s going to look like after december 17th

dutchster

homophobia is stupid. who the hell is afraid of homes

nickfuckface

AHGDGHDFJHKHFGGF????

nickfuckface

If anyone’s wondering how well the nsfw filters are going to work once tumblr outlaws horny people…..

jodiefoster

me: soft, full of love, forgiving, kind, bright also me: can hold grudges for years, bitter as hell, already cried twice today

notglacier

salty-red-mage

@staff deleting all porn while ignoring blogs promoting violence, bigotry, and hate speech

cognitivedissonance

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das-asoziale-netzwerk

r00

So Long Gay Bowser………..

mille-marteaux

squeakitties

You know who this one is! (art by @iamprikle)

roboticsappreciationsociety

In-home listening devices 'can identify optimal ways to discuss common problems and alleviate misunderstandings', says report author

Virtual assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home have the capacity to analyse how happy and healthy a couple’s relationship is, research has found.

In-home listening devices will soon be able to judge how functional relationships are as well as interrupt an argument with an idea for how to resolve it, the study said.

The research, by Imperial College Business School, stated that within the next two to three years, digital assistants could predict with 75 per cent accuracy the likelihood of a relationship or marriage being a success.

The technology would reach a verdict through acoustic analysis of communication between couples – examining everything from everyday encounters to arguments.

The virtual assistants would then be able to provide relationship advice and what researchers refer to as democratising counselling.