Mm, I’ve tried leaving mastodon.social, and quickly found that a lot of the people I follow and my followers form an elaborate web of blocks/de-federations that meant I would inevitably lose contact with many people. They’re all good people, but I don’t think they’d change their own instances just for my sake. I could join like, three different instances just to keep in touch, but if forced to choose at this point, I might just give up on Mastodon altogether.
Aggressive defederation is a plague on the Fediverse. If Hotmail blocked Juno blocked Yahoo blocked Gmail blocked whatever as aggressively as a lot of these Fedi platforms blocked each other, email wouldn’t work.
I feel like having to do moderation on the instance level is just not a good idea, because it just leads to scenarios like this. Unless an instance was just set up to send spam, in which case blocking it site-wide is obviously the best thing to do, you’re always going to cut off actual people who post from there.
At least on Lemmy, moderation can also be done on the community level, which actually have a topic they can enforce.
Mm, I’ve tried leaving mastodon.social, and quickly found that a lot of the people I follow and my followers form an elaborate web of blocks/de-federations that meant I would inevitably lose contact with many people. They’re all good people, but I don’t think they’d change their own instances just for my sake. I could join like, three different instances just to keep in touch, but if forced to choose at this point, I might just give up on Mastodon altogether.
Aggressive defederation is a plague on the Fediverse. If Hotmail blocked Juno blocked Yahoo blocked Gmail blocked whatever as aggressively as a lot of these Fedi platforms blocked each other, email wouldn’t work.
I feel like having to do moderation on the instance level is just not a good idea, because it just leads to scenarios like this. Unless an instance was just set up to send spam, in which case blocking it site-wide is obviously the best thing to do, you’re always going to cut off actual people who post from there.
At least on Lemmy, moderation can also be done on the community level, which actually have a topic they can enforce.