 Blocking other instances because they won’t block X or Y is childish Please worry about the blocks on your own instance and don’t force them onto others. That’s why they chose to run their server and not join yours😘 As user you can block individual people and even complete domains(instances). Instance admins/mods can do the same on instance level. That should be enough to moderate content you’ll see But for the love of cats, stop with dictating terms to other instances.. 19 comments
@robertnorlyn Perhaps the right kind in this case :ablobwink: Sometimes posts like these act as great filters and attract the bad actors sicne they can't keep it to themselves :blobcatgiggle: Besides a veeeery small partion of the Fedi is set in these ways but it will get them nowhere in the long run ❤️ unfort..   @antijingoist @stux why does that matter? posts and account information are open to the entire web through the AP api regardless, unless explicitly obscured. blocking only goes one way, you can only stop incoming things from specific addresses, not outgoing. forcing others to defederate with someone you dislike to avoid reads is a futile exercise, especially for large instances where the pathways are in the order of tens of thousands @stux You and your family live on a street with lots of neighbours. One of your neighbours makes racist jokes and hangs Nazi flags in their garden. You choose not to speak to that neighbour, and ignore them. A second neighbour doesn't make racist jokes or hang Nazi flags in their garden, but is happy to listen to the first neighbour, share their jokes with others, and so on. Do you continue to be friends with the second neighbour? Or choose not to, to protect your family? Seems simple to me.  @andy @stux I feel some Minority Report vibes from your argument. These people are not obliged to do anything. The sole fact that they're not building a wall with another house doesn't mean that they're supporting such ideology. They can have ideology of their own and respect others freedom if others don't infringe on someone else's freedom. They can even argue and actively disagree with such "bad neighbor". It's not about dictating terms. You can't solve everything on an individual basis. Sometimes we need solidarity and need to work together. I think there's nothing wrong with discussing the best options, and people voicing their opinion. |
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@stux #Yes #True Unfortunately, merely saying this out loud is probably going to generate drama.