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> You can run your own and federate with whomever.

One big problem IIRC (haven't touched it for a year or two):

I'm all in favor of being able to block users or instances.

But many Mastodon instances have a policy of blocking other instances if they don't block certain other instances.

When I realized this it was one of a number of reasons why I just gave it up.

I'm currently hoping that nostr and element/matrix takes off, but in the meanwhile I agree with whoever commented somewhere onnthe Internet the other day that Telegram is a DIY social network.




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