Blocking whole Fediverse sites is often a big mistake.
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Blocking whole Fediverse sites is often a big mistake. Here's why:
Admin1 doesn’t like User2. Instead of just blocking User2, Admin1 tells Admin3 to remove User2 from their site. But Admin3 says, “User2 didn’t do anything wrong.”
Now the two admins argue. They don’t agree. So one or both of them block each other’s entire site.
Here’s the problem:
Admin1’s site has 5,000 people.
Admin3’s site has 5,000 people too.Now, 10,000 people can’t talk to each other, just because one admin didn’t like one user.
And the worst part?
User2 might leave the Fediverse or stop using their account. But the block stays forever, and the 10,000 people stay cut off — for no good reason.
Site-wide blocks should only happen in serious cases, like child abuse or illegal content — not because of petty fights or personal drama.
Yet on the Fediverse, so many people go nuclear so easily.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Misskey #PeerTube #PixelFed #Loops #ActivityPub #FediBlock
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Blocking whole Fediverse sites is often a big mistake. Here's why:
Admin1 doesn’t like User2. Instead of just blocking User2, Admin1 tells Admin3 to remove User2 from their site. But Admin3 says, “User2 didn’t do anything wrong.”
Now the two admins argue. They don’t agree. So one or both of them block each other’s entire site.
Here’s the problem:
Admin1’s site has 5,000 people.
Admin3’s site has 5,000 people too.Now, 10,000 people can’t talk to each other, just because one admin didn’t like one user.
And the worst part?
User2 might leave the Fediverse or stop using their account. But the block stays forever, and the 10,000 people stay cut off — for no good reason.
Site-wide blocks should only happen in serious cases, like child abuse or illegal content — not because of petty fights or personal drama.
Yet on the Fediverse, so many people go nuclear so easily.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Misskey #PeerTube #PixelFed #Loops #ActivityPub #FediBlock
@Linux_Is_Best the ability to defederate was a terrible decision.
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@Linux_Is_Best the ability to defederate was a terrible decision.
No, it wasn't. I haven't seen more than a handful of Nazi posts on the Fediverse in the years that I moved here, and I think the ability to defederate plays a major part in that.
