@torgo Almost 15 yrs ago, I was in my 2nd ever dev job and my desk was on the other side of a cubicle wall from a manager who talked WAY too loud every single day. He said multiple times "I don't care if it is open source or closed source. If we aren't paying someone for the rights to use a piece of code and someone sues us for using it, we don't have someone to sue to make us whole." Open Source is supposed to be a "a rising tide lifts all boats" thing but it's become a source of easy freebies.

@vkc If your admin blocks "cesspool.domain", unless the maintainer of "cesspool.domain" forks mastodon and does some shenanigans, no user from that instance can follow any user from your instance and vice versa. They could go to your profile and take a screenshot of it or link to it if the post is public (vs "Quiet Public" or "Followers Only") but they can also do that if they aren't using Mastodon at all.

Truth Social is using an old, tweaked version of Mastodon but nobody federates with it.