Mastodon isn't perfect.
But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use
has no venture capital investors
has no shareholders to answer to
has no growth targets
with a web interface with zero tracking cookies
and mobile apps with zero trackers at all
with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety
is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.
Federal government agents probably post illegal porn on such websites so they can arrest the administrators for failure to take down such porn
That is why administrators should block illegal porn and why I am opposed to people posting illegal porn
But the porn laws are there not to protect society but to have an excuse to ban servers
The government probably wants to eliminate things like mastodon if they can not subvert them
Just owning a server for anything is dangerous
