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I don't like Tusky because the developer takes a political stance to what instances he will allow to use with the app. If I create a socialist mastodon server and the Tusky Dev one day decides he doesn't like socialism and he bans it, why should I support his decisions to ban other mastodon servers that I don't agree with?
Flawed logic. Saying the dev will ban random things he doesn't like is wrong since it ignores the fact he's only disallowing something we're all agree it's toxic and will only destroy the site at the long run.
The challenge I have with this is, mastodon servers should be able to ban other servers that are toxic, but once an app starts blocking the ability to connect to certain services because of political views it becomes a different beast IMO. Servers blocking other servers is maintaining community health. Applications blocking servers is censorship. Pirate servers would be next. Then porn. Then gun sites, etc. It may be slippery slope fallacy but it sets a dangerous precedent imo.