This has to do with Project92, not just with Facebook hosting Mastodon instances. I wouldn’t put it past them to discretely host instances to gather data, but we can’t see them, and therefore we can’t defend against them (and mass-defederation of potential instances is a recipe for disaster).
This has to do with Project92, not just with Facebook hosting Mastodon instances. I wouldn’t put it past them to discretely host instances to gather data, but we can’t see them, and therefore we can’t defend against them (and mass-defederation of potential instances is a recipe for disaster).