If only the mods had control, you know of the tools used to make the system work. Call it worker controll of the means of production maybe.

This here is more commie in the tradtitional pre bolshevik sense “the free and equal association of producers.”

I agree with most of this. Also my movie in my cue.

Eddit. God damned fat fingers

Im deeply out of the loop on mastodon. What happened there?

There always the defederation option. There was no exodus from mastodon when fashy-twitter (gab) started using a fork as their backend. Everyone just blocked them. At least thats my understanding.

Ive been using duckduckgo for years. Ive had good results. I still call is google-fu though.