In short i just jumped into the whole Mastodon blocking drama and am somewhat disappointed to see it as childish as reddit’s power mod drama. Accelerated by the fact that a Limit/Mute option exist just fine, i wonder why Block/Defederation is an option at all. It only moves power from the user to admins without anything in return. With just Mute, as far as i can tell, one still wouldn’t have to look on certain instances, but could interact/whitelist certain individuals and we’d get rid of the multi account requirement overnight. So why isn’t it that way?
Edit: For those annoyed by the same siloing issues, look into ATProto. Bluesky may be a big unknown, but the protocol itself looks a lot more promising in terms of user freedom.
Gotta be able to boot Nazis. Otherwise it’ll be Nazi bar.
I always suspect the people who don’t want defederation to be a thing kinda want the nazi bar. It’s always the lead into the freeze peach bullshit.
I often say, “Free Speech doesn’t mean other people are required to provide you with a soap box and megaphone.”
