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I don't understand why you'd have to dig through another instance's git history and make a judgment call based on a reverted implementation detail. Doesn't Mas

I don't understand why you'd have to dig through another instance's git history and make a judgment call based on a reverted implementation detail. Doesn't Mastodon have tools to notify the admin or even temporarily defederate based on X number of user reports from a given instance?

egypturnash 7y ago
"Purism's instance removed all moderation tools" is the reason I have an opinion on them at all. I only realized they reverted that when linking to the commit where they broke it for my previous comment. I might change my mind on defederating them if the users of my instance weigh in, but forty years of growing up along with the Internet has given me a rather jaundiced view of the ability of people whose primary concerns are softwarefreedom* to make sensible moderation decisions. Especially when they've started from a position of "we can completely opt out of moderating our social software, it'll be great, I'm sure everyone will behave like adults" and had to be argued out of that.