I'll miss a few things about Twitter.
Mostly the fact that with a little sleuthing, you could find on every account which ones Twitter believed were Nazis or Nazi-adjacent. Because for German legal compliance reasons, they had to filter those accounts for German users, so there was a little metadata you could fetch via the API that told you if a given tweet or entire account was Germany-noncompliant.
@mtomczak I guess I take for granted my privilege here of not having to worry that what I say is legal or not.
@obi If the Mastodon federated network grows to the size of Twitter, it will be interesting to see how nations respond.
Compliance enforcement is a bit harder (of course) with a distributed network, but the laws haven't changed so they'll certainly try. The only reason, I assume, they haven't already is the userbase wasn't large enough relative to its competition for regulators to care.
