alecm<p><strong>QUESTION FOR DISCUSSION: where FOO is a federated protocol, can one ever be truly “deplatformed” by BAR, where BAR is an instance of FOO?</strong></p><p>1/ FOO=Mastodon/ActivityPub, BAR=infosec.exchange</p><p>2/ FOO=AT-Proto, BAR=Bluesky</p><p>3/ FOO=Email, BAR=Gmail</p><p>I suspect that losing your Gmail account would be considered deplatforming, so why not your Mastodon account?</p> <p>I have, perhaps unsurprisingly, received some pushback from Mastodon users who are saying approximately that <em>“if someone <a href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/112254" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">gets kicked off a server</a> for something they said somewhere else, it’s entirely fine and they can just go and create a new server for themselves, it’s not like they have been deplatformed”</em></p><p>I think this is demonstrably nonsense, simply by analogy. </p><p>Hence the above; what do you think?</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/bluesky" target="_blank">#bluesky</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/censorship" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/deplatforming" target="_blank">#deplatforming</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/federation" target="_blank">#federation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/fediverse" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://alecmuffett.com/article/tag/mastodon" target="_blank">#mastodon</a></p>