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It's fair to say you can pick a Mastodon server based on rules that make sense to you, which is not the case for Twitter. If your server admin starts posting nutty propaganda (as Musk did today; https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elon-musk-new-owner-twi...), you can migrate somewhere else in a matter of minutes.

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(not familiar with Mastodon tech) Would I be able to move my social graph as well in your example, or just content? E.g. if I first registered an account at mastodon.se and many other mastodon.se users followed me, would they still see my updates if I move to a different instance (or if I am banned from mastodon.se)?

I just migrated myself from mastodon.social to a self-hosted instance. After a few minutes my followers all ported over fine.

Is it fair to say that now if I follow you on any instance and then you are banned from that instance, I will continue following you and seeing your posts because your identity is owned by your self-hosted instance?

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