Micro-Blogging Platform Mastodon Now Has a Policy Against Casteism

Open-source microblogging platform Mastodon has added a policy against casteism to its rules and regulations.

There’s a new social media platform in town but it works differently than anything else you’ve used.

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Open-source microblogging platform Mastodon, that gained prominence after a section of users on Twitter boycotted the micro-blogging site, has added a policy against casteism to its rules and regulations.

Founder of the platform, Eugen Rochko also posted on Sunday, 10 November as saying that the platform’s code of conduct has been updated to add “casteism and advocation of casteism” to the list of explicitly prohibited offenses.”

The policy comes at the time when Twitter is facing flak for turning a blind eye to casteist and communal discourse on their platform.

On Saturday 9 November, a journalist Tejas Harad had asked founder Rochko to add casteism as a point in the code of conduct that can get a user suspended. A day later, Harad's plea was addressed.

(With inputs from The News Minute.)