Edit: I see the problem, even with a self-hosted instance of 1, when you comment on posts in other instances that data is no longer held on your server, so you don’t own it and can’t control it directly, is that right?

The “problem” is also going the other way around. If a large instance is sharing data with your single user instance, they ultimately cannot control what you do with it.

The same is true if you just scrape the website.

The most absurd about this imo. is that Arabic is considered promoting terrorism, but Vikings are not.

In Germany someone trolled a mayor candidate of one of the Nazi parties with that. He fell for it

https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-german-candidate-promises-to-get-rid-of-arabic-numerals