The official Mastodon app is doing something new which is potentially very dangerous to the existence of Mastodon and the Fediverse.
The official Mastodon app now prompts users to join mastodon.social by default, when previously it prompted them to pick a server. If you're new this may sound harmless, but let me explain.
The entire point of this place is to be a social network spread out on as many servers as possible (the reasons are here: https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers/).
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"According to the US Department of Justice, adolescents who commit sex offenses account for up to one-third of all sex crimes. In some states, children as young as 8 years old of been placed on sex offender registries." https://azrsol.org/did-you-know-your-child-is-more-likely-to-be-placed-on-the-sex-offender-registry-than-to-be-harmed-by-someone-on-it/
"HE'S MAP AFFILIATED!!! REEEEEEE!"
"Would you let it go, he has a spongebob car, it's fucking awesome."
https://youtu.be/28Ar--oUDYQ
I pull up to the fedi meet in this and you can't help but love me
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