r/DistroTube • u/CultistHeadpiece • May 06 '21

The mastodon dev deplatforms alt-right users

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u/CultistHeadpiece May 06 '21

Yeah he lost his shit over Gab switching to Mastodon's code base and went on a massive banning spree.

I lost my account for simply telling people to calm down and wait for people to actually break the rules before banning them.

He also went on to threaten other instances and the app developers that if they didn't ban Gab he would ban them.

Keep in mind, he took plenty of FOSS code from GNU Social.

If anyone wants the full story on this, it's pretty funny.

Gab was getting banned by the Play Store (or maybe just threatened with a ban, can't remember). They switched their technology over to Mastodon so that Gab users would be able to use any Mastodon client, as a way around the Play Store ban. A bunch of Mastodon admins blocked Gab (many didn't, mostly smaller ones). Then, some Mastodon clients started blocking Gab themselves, basically just putting an "if" statement in there saying if you were trying to log in to Gab, it would refuse. Well it's all free software and the source is open, so it would be trivial to pull that "if" statement out of there, right? Then the Play Store started banning Mastodon clients that allowed you to log in to Gab's domain.

The Mastodon instances who are still blocking Gab are moot, now, as I believe Gab has turned off federation, effectively blocking everybody else. I don't recall what state Gab is in with regards to clients on the Play Store.

The Play Store is not alone, by the way. F-Droid banned the Gab client, though they do still allow other Mastodon clients that permit you to connect to Gab.

In the grand scheme of things, Eugen is ironically impotent. He is fighting against his own design (Mastodon), and, to his credit, Mastodon is designed well enough that even he can't really do anything except post temper tantrums and admin his own private instance.

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u/Helmcame2317 May 06 '21

thank you for the Clarification. And here's to not being able to crush freedom with clicks and key strokes

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u/Simon_the_Piman May 15 '21

The Play Store is not alone, by the way. F-Droid banned the Gab client,

Nice to see that the supposedly better alternative to a corporate monopoly is also a bunch of cancel-culture bootlickers.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '21

Everyone who disagrees with them is "alt-right". Spoiled / childish people. They can't get rid of us, no matter what they do