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1. Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! (eniko@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 22:00:25 JST Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!

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   One thing I don't see discussed in this is that .art is full of artists. A lot of freelance artists suffered greatly when Elon torched Twitter. And the fediverse told them, come here, you'll be safe, we'll take care of you. And they came and rebuilt the audiences they need to survive

   So if an admin of a large instance defederates in the heat of the moment it's not just a bit of social graph people lose. Some artists almost certainly took a real, quantifiable financial hit out of this. After they were told the fediverse was safe. How is this a remotely acceptable outcome?

   • Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! (eniko@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 22:00:26 JST Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!

     Really feel like mastodon's design doesn't prioritize protecting users from the actions of a malicious admin enough. If the pitch is "if the admin tries to burn things down then you can move" then for that pitch to work it can't be that an admin can torch everything before you have time to react

     Yes, they can always take the instance down immediately and in its entirety, but thats not what I'm talking about. But hey actually, if that happens there should still be a way to recover and move your account

     EDIT: "make backups" is not a solution because the most valuable part of a social graph is people who follow you, and those *cannot be backed up*

     Aral Balkan repeated this.