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Mastodon is only federated, this means your account is owned by the instance owner and can be banned. Bastyon is decentralized meaning there is no owner, your content can be blocked if there is a report and a random jury of high reputation users unanimously agrees that rules have been violated.
No porn and drugs but „free speech“? Yeah right, no thanks. If my account on mastodon gets banned on an instance I go somewhere else.
Of course if fediverse becomes too centralized the couple instances left might just defederate from everyone else, but OTOH what protects me from a couple individuals downvoting me into oblivion on Bastyon?
They’re both decentralized in their own way but communities have to fight against malicious actors that attack the decentralization.
3 options:
- Join a mastodon instance;
- Run your own instance and connect to mastodon;
- Run your own instance and connect to the worst of mankind;
And you’re picking #3?
If they pass a law that social media platforms need to collect ID the instance you run will have to collect ID or shut down. No single entity runs Bastyon and no ID laws can be enforced.
You can’t even move goalposts right. If you run a server for yourself you’ve already collected the ID for its single user.
Since you’re not interested in honest discourse and are pushing an agenda, I’ll now block you. Have a great life!
You do not understand the platform and are speaking out of ignorance. You do not need to run a node to use the platform and no one can stop you from joining.
If you run a node you participate in the network, your user does not reside or originate from your node it is distributed as all metadata is stored on chain.