Whelp, looks like it was a good idea for twitter to ban links to this place
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The real answer is more nuanced but the quartering is just protecting twitter by smearing competition using a standard scare.
Facts:
- Mastodon is open source which means anyone can set up an instance
- Mastodon instances have the choice to accept or block content from other instances
- Some time ago, a japanese instance was created, and afterwards it soon got overrun with hentai, including the creepier variety
- The mastodon servers run by westerners got wind up of it and blocked the japanese instance
- Over time other hentai instances were created
- Some allowed the creepier variety of hentai
- They got blocked by other instances
- Mastodon.social, Mastodon.online and other instances do not allow this content and block federation with servers that allow it, so no, it was not a good idea.
If you go to joinmastodon, the servers on that list generally speaking are blocking this kind of stuff and the MAU count available there only tallies the server listed. Twitter also has a problem with creepy content but now that Musk owns Twitter these types don't care anymore. The difference is that since twitter is centralized you are forced to share a server with creepy stuff while on masto because of the federation mechanics you are not.