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Personally I think this could be solved by having two types of instances: 1) generic boring ones where you can make your own personal profile 2) specific ones acting like special i…

I have characterized it as impersonation because this is exactly what has been done in this case. It's funny that you mention The Onion, because they are impersonating nobody since…

Can you impersonate someone as a joke? No. Parody is not identity theft. When a comedian "impersonates" a politicians we all partake in a temporary delusion aided by the comic's ab…

If the whole point of your account is to make people laugh with the imaginary pretense that your posts are coming from another person/institution then yes, the potential readers sh…

"style of moderation"? what does that mean? I don't agree with what GP said, but on what basis could you moderate his posts? Because they aren't "true"? In that case why not say th…

unlabelled satirical identity theft is identity theft

I believe I can afford posting a little "trope" since HN's frontpage is being flooded (spammed) by Mastodon posts

I hate to break it to you, but Elon Musk and Twitter at large have more to lose from a reputational damage caused by blatant moderation misuse than an anonymous kid with an anime p…

First they came for the "stupid" opinions, but I didn't care because I was sure mine weren't. Then they came for me, and there was nobody left to defend me

You have said nothing about me since you're talking to a simple username whose life you have no idea about. But I'm not the one here sobbing, so your reply means absolutely nothing…

But now your post won't be taken down by a paid employee of a corporation with actual contractual obligations and custom made moderation tools to limit collateral damage, instead a…

I didn't literally say that and you are making things up. "Tearing down" someone has a strong and violent connotation, nothing to do with a few snarky comments.

That's your own personal baseless speculation, do you go through life randomly accusing people? Not very healthy, I would suggest being less hasty

People who write posts like yours tend to ascertain their moral superiority by psychoanalyzing people on the internet based on a few badly interpreted words

Yes, in a pub, which social media is the digital equivalent of. If you can't handle some mean banter (in this case even surrounded by a majority of praise) I suggest you make your …

Allowing people to join Facetime calls through a browser is not "opening up" the platform. Until they have an API I can write a custom client for it's just a different kind o closu…

My only assumption is that most people will choose an instance based on its reputation and that reputable instances will be far fewer than amateurish and unreliable ones. This is a…

So let's say a lot of people think in that way and avoid instances managed by nameless accounts. Where does that leave us? Well, maybe people will flock to the few instances ran by…

What Musk says publicly is basically useless. All the truly important information about him has been the result of deep investigations through papers and documents and third party …

A Mastodon instance owner can read everything you've ever posted, log everything even if you deleted it, doxx your IP and your private messages, delete or modify everything about y…

We know many things about Musk because he's a well known public figure which has attracted the attention of plenty of investigative journalists. But what do you know about the owne…

It would actually be funny if this were a realistic lettuce made of plastic

I also don't need to follow toxic people on Twitter, so I really don't know why I would use a badly programmed and infinitely smaller social network