Spot the Fed: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and Why You Can't Run Servers Like It's 1999
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Claim: running a Mastodon instance is technically trivial—10–15 minutes to deploy—but operational reality is not. Expect legal exposure from privacy regulation, copyright takedowns, and even a national security letter risk if infrastructure and governance are informal. Examples of partial solutions exist: atproto shared moderation policies and Mastodon boilerplate terms, but persistent problems remain—billing, uptime, security patches, cross-instance moderation, and inconsistent user experience—so standalone servers often fail without shared tooling and policy infrastructure.
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