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I'm an admin and I've noticed this issue as well, INTPenis. I've just resolved to taking the fediblock tag with a huge grain of salt. Stick to your values and d

I'm an admin and I've noticed this issue as well, INTPenis. I've just resolved to taking the fediblock tag with a huge grain of salt. Stick to your values and do your own investigations instead of caving to social pressure. Of course, that didn't work when people started doing that whole "block X or we'll block you" guilt-by-association thing. But I just hope that's a minority. I believe a solution to this may be more decentralisation, so a small number of admins with old and bitter feuds aren't able to control the experience for the majority of users on large servers. Admins should be friends, not celebrities. That's why I'm not part of the whole UFoI thing, but I'm sympathetic to its existence.

dack 4y ago
What do you think about giving individual users more power to moderate amongst themselves rather than having server admins do it? For example, a much more powerful "blocklist" type feature that you can share with others? So a could spend a bunch of time doing moderation, and publish a "blocklist" that other users could then install on their account so they don't see some set of people / content.
INTPenis 4y ago
What we need is some universal moderation guidelines. Like for example; sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me. As long as people follow the server rules, aggressively presented arguments, anger, fear, rude words said to famous accounts, should not lead to de-federation. Our rules already disallow all forms of xenophobia, transphobia, attacks, doxing and all that stuff. End users need to take more responsibility for moderation in the fedi. That's why we have the Mute button. But people would rather take "action" with the Report button, than the Mute button. Because they get so angry at some stranger online. You don't know anything about that person, or what they're going through. I have experience meeting reformed nazis, previously violent people who are trying to reform. So people go through stages in life, and maybe sometimes they're a bit off, but some day that person is going to wake up and then we should be able to help them out of their daze. De-federation makes this impossible.

dack 4y ago

What do you think about giving individual users more power to moderate amongst themselves rather than having server admins do it? For example, a much more powerful "blocklist" type feature that you can share with others? So a could spend a bunch of time doing moderation, and publish a "blocklist" that other users could then install on their account so they don't see some set of people / content.

INTPenis 4y ago

What we need is some universal moderation guidelines. Like for example; sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me. As long as people follow the server rules, aggressively presented arguments, anger, fear, rude words said to famous accounts, should not lead to de-federation. Our rules already disallow all forms of xenophobia, transphobia, attacks, doxing and all that stuff. End users need to take more responsibility for moderation in the fedi. That's why we have the Mute button. But people would rather take "action" with the Report button, than the Mute button. Because they get so angry at some stranger online. You don't know anything about that person, or what they're going through. I have experience meeting reformed nazis, previously violent people who are trying to reform. So people go through stages in life, and maybe sometimes they're a bit off, but some day that person is going to wake up and then we should be able to help them out of their daze. De-federation makes this impossible.