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Does Mastodon have less moderation than any other social media platform? Not looked into it deeply, so please let me know. From what I understand the instance/server owners are in charge of moderations, and a users network is a network of users from various servers.

Will Mastodon allow parody and scam accounts? Or is it on a server by server basis? Does each server have different published TOS? There used to be Christian counterstrike games servers, would there be the equivalent mastodon servers?

I guess its still in early adopters with wide eyes on best behaviour at the moment. Has it been built with the lessons learnt about moderation that Twitter has shown when celebrities like Opra bring in regular people into the system?




Your question is somewhat ill-posed since it isn't a platform but a network. A node on a network can allow parody and scam accounts, at which points other nodes are free to refuse to federate with it.


Every instance has its own moderation, so parody, scam and Christian counterstrike accounts will be allowed on some instances, but not on others.

Instances can choose to federate with each other, so it's likely no one will federate with scam instances.


> Or is it on a server by server basis? Does each server have different published TOS? There used to be Christian counterstrike games servers, would there be the equivalent mastodon servers?

Yes. In most cases, yes. And possibly.




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