Good early morning fedi! I hope you are OK.

I just realized why we the email analogy is bad for fediverse.

Can you imagine if in the 90s hotmail suddenly said, they don't like yahoo, therefore you can't receive any more email from yahoo addresses?

Because that's what happening right now with the fediverse.

Fedi maybe decentralized in the background, on the tech level. But communication and idea wise it is not decentralized. Let the users decide if they want to block others, on an individual level.

What's the worst thing can happen? Twitter-like blocklists? Or fediverse's very own Steve Shives, who blocks people even just by following other people he doesn't like? Now that would be funny actually. (Btw when I was on twitter many-many years ago, he blocked me. Never interacted with him, never followed him. All it took, I was following some people he didn't like.)

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