@aral in fairness, both mastodon.online and mastodon.social share the same IP addresses... So... this sheds doubt on my idea they are on separate infrastructure...
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So I hasn’t realised that Mastodon GmbH (mastodon.social) also runs mastodon.online.
This is troubling, to say the least.
#mastodon #fediverse #federation #censorship #mastodonOnline #mastodonSocial #mastodonGmbH
@aral why is this troubling?
@bobdobberson Context (further up the thread, possibly not visible to you): https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116537826683876299
@aral in fairness, both mastodon.online and mastodon.social share the same IP addresses... So... this sheds doubt on my idea they are on separate infrastructure...
@bobdobberson I was just told by the folks at Mastodon GmbH that it was originally started when mastodon.social couldn’t scale beyond a certain point (which, in a decentralised system, maybe should have a good point to say “maybe we shouldn’t”… but I lost that argument with Eugen a long time ago) and now remains for legacy reasons. Apparently also gets code updates before .social so I guess they’re also using it as a sort of quasi-staging/test instance.
…Not least of all because the same company that runs the largest Mastodon instance runs more than one instance (why?)
But also the moderation policy that allows for the deletion of people’s posts. (Not even limiting the account or suspending it and asking the person who wrote the post to delete it but moderators outright deleting other people’s posts themselves. That sets a very dangerous precedent.)
#mastodon #fediverse #federation #censorship #mastodonOnline #mastodonSocial #mastodonGmbH
> runs more than one instance (why?)
Because it's best to have multiple points of failure? Why centralize things?
@bobdobberson One company running multiple large instances is centralisation.
@aral
Quel était la teneur de ces messages ?
@liaizon You're confusing mastodon online with mastodon social.
@aral oh my days what a lovely thing to write. TY Aral xxx
@Geri It’s just the truth 💕
@aral Even though the judge overseeing the #Filton6 trial said nothing was to be reported upon about the trial, I copied the powerful closing statements of the defendants - which doubtless you have seen - to every single British MP.
One MP, who I have had a fairly good relationship with, replied back in confidence saying that I need to be careful as I have committed 'Contempt of Court' by telling our members of parliament what is going on inside our courts
Yeek!
All my love, Geri xxx
