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> Imagine if email services worked this way! “subscriber@otherhost is rumored to be slightly politically oriented in a way we don’t like, so we as admins have p

> Imagine if email services worked this way! “subscriber@otherhost is rumored to be slightly politically oriented in a way we don’t like, so we as admins have prevented everyone@thishost from mailing everyone@otherhost, and vice versa”. Entire instances don't get blocked just because of one user's political opinion. The most extreme case I can imagine is that of a couple of subscriber@otherhost being harmful to other instances, and the admins of "otherhost" refusing to do anything about it. So some instances ("thishost") would preventively block "otherhost" if they don't want to deal with every single harmful user from that instance. But if that block policy of "thishost" is publicly advertised, then what's wrong with that? It's like users choosing a blocklist provider on Twitter.

wizzwizz4 7y ago
> Entire instances don't get blocked just because of one user's political opinion. Not often, but it has happened with a couple of instances. There's a group of 7 or so that's trying to wall itself off entirely from anybody who federates with anyone who federates with the crap instances, which I think is excessive – just defederate with the crap ones and soft-block those that don't at least soft-block the crap ones; that's sufficient for most cases. However, it's a minority of instances that do that, and I don't know of one where the users don't know. The system works; I can still see stuff on the utter shithole corners of the Fediverse, if I choose (hint: I don't), but it's not pushed in my face. Just because they want to push things in my face, doesn't mean everybody has to let them “unless I opt out”. That's an opt-in kind of thing, in my book. See https://telegra.ph/MastodonOStatus-Instance-Blocking-FAQ-06-24 https://telegra.ph/MastodonOStatus-Instance-Blocking-FAQ-06-... for a better explanation, from an actual moderator who didn't originally agree with this philosophy.

wizzwizz4 7y ago

> Entire instances don't get blocked just because of one user's political opinion. Not often, but it has happened with a couple of instances. There's a group of 7 or so that's trying to wall itself off entirely from anybody who federates with anyone who federates with the crap instances, which I think is excessive – just defederate with the crap ones and soft-block those that don't at least soft-block the crap ones; that's sufficient for most cases. However, it's a minority of instances that do that, and I don't know of one where the users don't know. The system works; I can still see stuff on the utter shithole corners of the Fediverse, if I choose (hint: I don't), but it's not pushed in my face. Just because they want to push things in my face, doesn't mean everybody has to let them “unless I opt out”. That's an opt-in kind of thing, in my book. See https://telegra.ph/MastodonOStatus-Instance-Blocking-FAQ-06-24 https://telegra.ph/MastodonOStatus-Instance-Blocking-FAQ-06-... for a better explanation, from an actual moderator who didn't originally agree with this philosophy.