Which "Mastodon"?
Searching for 'mastodon' as a software name at Fediverse Observer returns some 8788 rows
8,788 separate, autonomous Mastodon instances
How exactly could 8,788 separate installations be "crippled"?
If you wanted to bring down Mastodon, by which I mean cripple its architecture so that it ceased to function, how would you do it?
I ask not because I have any interest in doing this but because I hope that the people who are making it work have asked this question and put measures in place before someone who is thinking about it does it.
Moderation tools I wish were available at the user level:
1) the ability to reject and remove unwelcome comments on my thread.
2) the ability to send a toot with comments closed entirely, not everything has to be a discussion/argument.
When it comes to blogs, Ofcom says one thing, the UK Online Safety Act says another.
This lack of clarity over whether blogs with comments are exempt will push small sites to shut down completely.
We need the UK government to tighten up the definitions and exemptions in the Act.
Read our explainer for more detail 
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/save-our-sites-deadline-17-march/
Under the UK Online Safety Act, small blogs, forums and fedi instances are faced with disproportionate requirements to:
️ Check if they have UK users
️ Do a risk assessment on whether kids might access the content, or if CSAM or terrorist material might be posted in the comments
️ Put themselves at the risk of fines, and even prison sentences, if they fail to comply with Ofcom’s future directives
The UK Online Safety Act burdens small sites with duties and penalties that they can't shoulder. They'll shut down instead, stripping us of net plurality.
There’s a simple solution:
Exempt small, safely run blogs, forums and fedi instances The government can do this now
The duties start TOMORROW – Write to your MP 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.
We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.
URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.
Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Will the last small site turn off the lights?
The UK Online Safety Act imposes the same duties and penalties on blogs, forums and fedi instances as huge platforms.
Many small, safely moderated sites will shut down or block UK users.
Crushing competition is the last thing we need for a safer Internet!
Act now before 17 March
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
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The clock is running down to save encryption 
Will you join over 750 people who've used our tool to reply to Ofcom's consultation on implementing message scanning powers in the UK?
Stop the attack on end-to-end encryption!
ACT NOW before the consultation closes at 5pm
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text
Do you want hackers and predators to slide into your DMs?
That's what would happen if message scanning tech is forced onto messaging apps.
Ofcom's consultation on powers that'd break end-to-end encryption closes on Monday!
Use our tool to tell them #PracticeSafeText 
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