Why I shut down wizards.town and left Mastodon
This is rather tangentially related, and may be an unpopular opinion, but I think it is silly that drawings of fictional characters who appear to be under the age of 18, nude or engaged in sexual activity, is posing such a legal issue. It&#x27;s very strange and in my opinion ridiculous that such material is illegal.<p>Though I can understand the wider application to materials not allowed to be possessed, there isn&#x27;t much that a single instance owner can do other than to shut out the whole federation aspect of Mastodon, which would be a great loss and simply centralise things again.<p>If the metadata could somehow be moved from the server to the client, or the client chooses to whom to subscribe and post to, wouldn&#x27;t that be better? Why is it done on the server side?<p>Edit: it would be nice if people could please explain downvotes, so I know how to better improve the posts I write. Downvoting itself is not helpful to this understanding.