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  > And then I get defederated for having done so.

if i don't like what someone is saying i have the freedom to disassociate from them, wether its in real-life or in mastodon or whatever

  > It's an illusion freedom that does not exist in practice because this is Mastodon we're talking about.

i think you are confusing freedom with privilege.

>>andrek+(OP)
> if i don't like what someone is saying i have the freedom to disassociate from them

Yeah, on Mastodon we usually do so by not following that person?

This is not what I'm talking about but the infrastructure issue of internal strife between admins affecting tens of thousands of users for the most ridiculous of reasons, and this has not just been a hypothetical scenario, unfortunately.

And no, setting up your personal instance isn't a realistic solution for most people who just want to chat.