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Marco Rogers

@deborahh what if you can't block individually. Does that mean mastodon itself doesn't actually meet your needs in terms of privacy? Because your decisions are too bound up with everybody else on your instance?

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Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 replied to Marco

@polotek but I can, as an individual, block an instance. So I'm not sure why you ask.

And, yes, this is a very important feature for me, since instance moderation failures can create troll ghettos.

Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 replied to Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

@polotek ... and, if "block bluesky" is *already possible, at an individual level, creating this special featureset for bluesky seems a waste 🤔

A) features need to be mirrored/accomodated in 3rd party apps, and also maintained. Only features that add real value are worth this (mostly volunteer) effort.

B) It seems to creates a sub-class of fedizens with special treatment -- unnecessarily, since a person or an instance can already block. This seems contra to the feel of fedi as it is today.

Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 replied to Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

@polotek ... hmm. I'm reading the thread below. I didn't realise that this "bridge" to bluesky seems to operate differently. If I cannot block the bluesky instance easily*, it definitely needs to be opt-in from the start.

- and even if I can block it, fedi needs to ensure all users are aware in advance so they can block proactively.

So many are hoping fedi will be a safer place than the commercial platforms. Forced bluesky integration threatens that, imo.

masto.es/@berniethewordsmith/1

@polotek ... hmm. I'm reading the thread below. I didn't realise that this "bridge" to bluesky seems to operate differently. If I cannot block the bluesky instance easily*, it definitely needs to be opt-in from the start.

- and even if I can block it, fedi needs to ensure all users are aware in advance so they can block proactively.

Marco Rogers replied to Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

@deborahh fedi is not a place. And there's no people to "ensure" anything.

Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 replied to Marco

@polotek ok, granted. But it's a federation, right? Which I assume means there are conversations between admins, some agreements, and other recommendations made.

Marco Rogers replied to Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

@deborahh unfortunately no. These are reasonable assumptions at a high level. But the truth is a lot messier.

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