blaine"Mastodon sucks because any one of the 5000+ communities can set their own rules and might accidentally deprive people in that community of my witty hot takes for a reason I personally believe to be flippant" isn't the sick burn that the Twitter user with 50k followers thinks it is.
Michael 
@blaine maybe not, but I’m not looking forward to repeatedly explaining to friends and family why they can’t see their favourite celebrity’s toots any more.
@mykd I fully expect to see the emergence of NormCore ActivityPub networks ("family-safe pixelfed" vs "pixelfet"), and more fluidity around person-to-person follows vs the behaviour of server-level blocks (i.e., the server lets an individual see their grandfather's posts on RepublicanNet, but doesn't propagate them in the fed timeline)
Joseph E. Edwards VIII@blaine @mykd It should be interesting to see if that plays out. When fascist Gab switched to Mastodon a few years ago, they were universally defederated. It's why the question of blocking lists is being asked by new instance admins. If they don't block Gab (or "Truth" Social, which also uses Mastodon tech) then they risk being defederated, too
Yeah, but Gab was clear-cut. What should the position be about an instance that allows police officers to join it? There are admins out there who will block that server. Journalists? Ditto. Politicians? Very probably. Etc etc.
Without more nuanced control mechanisms being available, there’s a risk of a chasm developing between ever-larger “reasonable free speech” instances and tightly curated “safety first” instances. And what will that do to the fediverse?