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It's not. Moderated public feeds are useful (way too easy for stuff to get offtopic, even if it is not technically spam or abusive), that I agree on, but if I subscribed to someone I should be able to get their posts, regardless of what random moderator thinks about them.

Especially that moderation and "for free" usually ends up with power trips being actual payment to the mods

> as long as there are other servers you can feasibly switch to if you don't agree with their definition of "spam".

Not that simple. If server A doesn't like X (not even abuse, might just not like topics that are talked about there), server B doesn't like Y and server C doesn't like Z your only choice is your own instance and that's far more effort than most want to go thru



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