>The federation is not like email(besides in the technical details).
We are on Hacker News. You can't in good faith ignore the technical details.
Especially when they directly affect the functioning of the entire system, and "run your own instance" is every other "objection" to my criticism.
>The email equivalent would be a mailing list, and mailing lists have moderation.
>I joined my Mastodon instance, just as I would join a mailing list, for the community and moderation
Great!
Except this is not how Mastodon is pitched as: a Twitter alternative, a federated social network, where an account represents a person.
What you describe is a good, old webforum (or, indeed, a mail list), with admins who can kick you off of one, end of story.... with the caveat that should a post on a mail list anger a moderator, they can nuke your entire email account.
Mastodon instance accounts, as you said, are akin to forum accounts. It's phpBB with benefits.
Which is fine, but that falls very short of the promise of a federated Twitter.
>I would appreciate a response from you that is more than yelling out a logical fallacy like a grade schooler.
You are welcome to point out the fallacy instead of yelling like a grade schooler.
Please cite specific passages in either of my comment that you find fallacious, what you think is instead true, and we can go from there.
"I will ignore your questions, and call you names because I like Mastodon and this feels critical" isn't a logical argument.