[Sin2x]

You are literally one search query away from it making sense:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495086

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2737/FP_6.pdf

There was a huge uproar about it a couple of years back.

EDIT:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/jkiw1y/can_someon...

Gab was "banned" in that the vast majority of instances blocked it and blocked any other instance that didn't do the same.

If that's not censorship, I don't know what is. You can have your sandbox but you can't play with others unless you accept their censorship rules and politics.

[ceejayoz]

> You are literally one search query away from it making sense...

No, that doesn't make it make more sense. You're saying Pleroma instances cannot decide to de-federate with a specific instance, and can't remove/moderate posts? That seems... unlikely.

[Sin2x]

I'm saying that censorship is ingrained in the Mastodon culture and is considered normal and necessary. Considering that Pleroma is also technically superior, I don't understand why one would prefer Mastodon over it, except popularity which is not a merit.