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Are you referring to the reporting feature in this PR, or something else?

by jauer 6y ago

numpad0 6y ago
Twitter had some drama few years back, Japanese non-tech users rushed into Mastodon and completely obliterated the federation, something like 3/4 of global DAU and volume at peak? That forced quite a progress for Mastodon project and left substantial pain for two cultures so there's a bit of Cold War between people taking Western or Japanese sides
- jack1243star 6y ago
  > completely obliterated the federation The developer decided to implement instance blocking, not the other way around.
  - numpad0 6y ago
    Wasn't that weeks-months after the initial in-rush? I think few instances crashed, born, transferred before devs split.
    - jack1243star 6y ago
      Yes, but I think the implementation of the block is what caused the schism (or simply isolation). It was sad, to have witnessed such a bright future unfold, interesting discussions on language, on tech, on culture. And then to have half of the world just cut off. The fediverse was the future...
      - AsyncAwait 6y ago
        You conveniently omit that mastodon.social operates from Germany and thus simply cannot legally federate with many of the Japanese instances.
        jack1243star 6y ago
        If you know about this, you should consider that mastodon.social acts as an example instance. This effectively made blocking Pawoo and a few other instances the norm. There was a block-list circulating around, and if you do not block every instance on the list, your instance is misogynist, pedophile and far-right.
        mdszy 6y ago
        As someone who actually administers a Mastodon instance, this is absolutely not the case and is a complete exaggeration.
        jack1243star 6y ago
        I was referring to toot.cafe's block list, which I saw a lot of instances blindly followed. (I had my own instance)
        mdszy 6y ago
        "Blindly followed"? Or "Trusted the administration decsisions of those with similar views, and decided to follow their lead"?
        jack1243star 6y ago
        My bad, I shouldn't have assumed ignorance. I was just so frustrated when the instance cut me off from people I follow, sorry for the language.
        progval 6y ago
        > There was a block-list circulating around, and if you do not block every instance on the list, your instance is misogynist, pedophile and far-right. I must have missed the memo, because I run a medium-sized instance, don't follow any blocklist, and no one ever complained about it.
  - ReverseCold 6y ago
    Reminds me of the EFNet (eris free net)/A-net (anarchy net) split. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet

Are you referring to the reporting feature in this PR, or something else?

by jauer 6y ago

Are you referring to the reporting feature in this PR, or something else?

Twitter had some drama few years back, Japanese non-tech users rushed into Mastodon and completely obliterated the federation, something like 3/4 of global DAU and volume at peak? That forced quite a progress for Mastodon project and left substantial pain for two cultures so there's a bit of Cold War between people taking Western or Japanese sides

jack1243star 6y ago
> completely obliterated the federation The developer decided to implement instance blocking, not the other way around.
- numpad0 6y ago
  Wasn't that weeks-months after the initial in-rush? I think few instances crashed, born, transferred before devs split.
  - jack1243star 6y ago
    Yes, but I think the implementation of the block is what caused the schism (or simply isolation). It was sad, to have witnessed such a bright future unfold, interesting discussions on language, on tech, on culture. And then to have half of the world just cut off. The fediverse was the future...
    - AsyncAwait 6y ago
      You conveniently omit that mastodon.social operates from Germany and thus simply cannot legally federate with many of the Japanese instances.
      - jack1243star 6y ago
        If you know about this, you should consider that mastodon.social acts as an example instance. This effectively made blocking Pawoo and a few other instances the norm. There was a block-list circulating around, and if you do not block every instance on the list, your instance is misogynist, pedophile and far-right.
        mdszy 6y ago
        As someone who actually administers a Mastodon instance, this is absolutely not the case and is a complete exaggeration.
        jack1243star 6y ago
        I was referring to toot.cafe's block list, which I saw a lot of instances blindly followed. (I had my own instance)
        mdszy 6y ago
        "Blindly followed"? Or "Trusted the administration decsisions of those with similar views, and decided to follow their lead"?
        jack1243star 6y ago
        My bad, I shouldn't have assumed ignorance. I was just so frustrated when the instance cut me off from people I follow, sorry for the language.
        progval 6y ago
        > There was a block-list circulating around, and if you do not block every instance on the list, your instance is misogynist, pedophile and far-right. I must have missed the memo, because I run a medium-sized instance, don't follow any blocklist, and no one ever complained about it.
- ReverseCold 6y ago
  Reminds me of the EFNet (eris free net)/A-net (anarchy net) split. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet