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gargron on Oct 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mastodon 2.0

Mastodon has no home to phone to. You only host your own user's data and the data they request by e.g. following users on other instances. If your users don't follow anyone on the outside, nothing will leave your instance.

actuallyalys on Oct 21, 2017 [–]

To elaborate, Mastodon.social is only a de facto home, nothing in the code privileges that instance over others.

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