Free Speech according to the idea of mostly left-wing oriented operators of Mastodon instances means to permanently exclude at least 500 instances worldwide from the federation because of "wrong opinions".
It took me more than a week of intensive research to find the part of Fediverse that was locked out by the Federation.
Mastodon, contrary to all praise, is degenerating into an even more censored platform than Twitter and Facebook combined.
https://gist.github.com/yetzt/32c754fbe87009f8c161f40541147c70
There are always 2 perspectives:
One that addresses a world as it should be and one that addresses a world as it is.
My personal point is that the Fediverse does not deserve the reputation of representing Free Speech when third party opinions are suppressed.
If I want to block someone, I do it.
ANYONE who thinks they have the right to decide for me what I have to block, or even blocks themself in such a way that I don't see what I want to see, is an infantile, narcissistic fascist who decides arbitrarily and therefore has no idea about freedom.