Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 week agoI’m not an expert on how activity pub works, but you’re saying if I had an account on mastodon.social, and if they took down a post on my @user@mastodon.social account, regardless of takedown reason, it would still be visible from other instances?
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I’m saying that if your home server (mastodon.social) is outside of Turkey, then there is less reason for them to comply in the first place because they only risk the mastodon.social server being blocked in Turkey. That one is a bad example because they’re one of the largest, so if you want to be extra safe, you’d want to pick a server that isn’t so big so that they are less likely to care about complying with some other county that they might not have any users from.
If the server you use is based inside the country that has a problem with your content, then you’d be screwed - though all the other servers will still mirror and cache your content for a bit even if you get taken down.
The resiliency lies in the fact that you can choose to register in a country that is politically friendly towards your posts or if your home country is friendly but you want to avoid being taken down, you can self host a single user instance and refuse any requests from other countries.