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The law doesn't have to force you to pay it - it just has to say, either federate with everybody or nobody. All it needs to do is say, if you're accepting posts from other people, you need to do so in a non-discriminatory way. (Providers like Twitter would love this law because it would kill decentralized systems. In fact this would allow Jack to "decentralize" Twitter https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106 while making sure no decentralized systems run by the powerless can compete. Everyone else can technically run a decentralized system, but Twitter is the only one worth using. It's the perfect regulatory capture.) Sure, you can probably get by for a bit by just happening to fail to peer with Nazis, but you would immediately lose the ability to make a public shared block list with reasoning, a la https://github.com/dzuk-mut

My experience on the Fediverse is actually directly opposite yours: there is a whole host of explicitly right-wing instances to the point where a lot of other instances filter them out through blocklists. It it also my experience that a good deal of Mastodon instances tend to be left-leaning (as a result of per-instance rules/moderation practices) and a good deal of Pleroma instances the opposite. Of course there are exceptions here, but it's really not hard to find right-wing instances on the Fediverse. In fact, to find them you only need to browse popular blocklists[0]. There is nothing preventing you from signing up to one of those, though I think it's fair that I warn you that they're not the kind of instances you'd want to spend much time on for your own sanity. Disclaimer: I'm sympathetic to a lot of the "leaning to the left" practi

> Now if your content is such that no respectable instance wants to take you... perhaps also reconsider why you're getting banned. Except, there are multiple "wrongthink" lists that are used to auto-ban entire instances [1][2]. Technical merits of Mastadon aside, the community very much encourages echo chamber behaviour - hell on of the reasons for un-federating an instance is "apparent free speech zone". And to top it off, this is a viral list. If your instance federates with "wrongthink" instances there is a very real chance you'll get banned too - just for not banning the "wrong" people. [1] https://github.com/dzuk-mutant/blockchain/blob/master/list/l... [2] https://toot.cafe/about/more#blocked-instances