> Admins will ban you for whatever reason they want.[1]
from the link you provided, the admins respond:
"This post was removed by mistake and we apologize. We’ve recently hired more moderators and the post in question was falsely interpreted to be implying something it was not."
for [5], the journa.host server had a lot of problems out of the gate, including some suspicion they were sharing ban-evasion tools, but is not currently defederated for the most part. I follow lots of people on that host and I'm on a different server. the thread there illustrates the reasons which IMO were not unreasonable for a brand new server attracting a lot of attention with odd moves.
not that moderation isn't fraught with tons of problems, but I dont think large servers have admins that are capriciously banning people for made-up reasons the way Musk has been doing on Twitter.
And to your point, in addition to those examples being unreliable, they're a small smattering of one-offs in a context of vast numbers of users on huge servers. By and large the typical server doesn't have idiosyncratic rules, and the scenario contemplated here is a fever dream.
As Twitter has imploded, people have increasingly complained about unrepresentative strange examples that don't accurately reflect the day-to-day experience of being on Mastodon.
Mastodon servers can hire moderators?? How do they make money? I thought Mastodon was all about not-for-profit social media and there's no way for Mastodon server admins to make any money as there's no ads?? Not a Mastodon user, just trying to understand who is a Mastodon admin (given the large powers they seem to have) and what's in it for them.
from the link you provided, the admins respond:
"This post was removed by mistake and we apologize. We’ve recently hired more moderators and the post in question was falsely interpreted to be implying something it was not."
for [5], the journa.host server had a lot of problems out of the gate, including some suspicion they were sharing ban-evasion tools, but is not currently defederated for the most part. I follow lots of people on that host and I'm on a different server. the thread there illustrates the reasons which IMO were not unreasonable for a brand new server attracting a lot of attention with odd moves.
not that moderation isn't fraught with tons of problems, but I dont think large servers have admins that are capriciously banning people for made-up reasons the way Musk has been doing on Twitter.