Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
Marco's posts Post Back to profile
Top-level
Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

@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.

14 February at 15:49 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.ca
5 comments
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.

14 February at 16:12 | Open on mstdn.ca
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.

15 February at 2:45 | Open on mstdn.ca
Marco Rogers replied to Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦

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

15 February at 2:49 | Open on social.polotek.net
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.

15 February at 2:56 | Open on mstdn.ca
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.

15 February at 3:25 | Open on social.polotek.net
Go Up