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.
LatteBadger@mykd @blaine if they got blocked by a bunch of feds, then it was probably for a reason that's probably worth a conversation about withbyojr freinds and family and if they still want to see said celebs toots then there free to move fed or set up there own fed, this system is 10,000x better, because we can all find a place and a set of rules that suits us.
@mykd @blaine being trans, I'm extreamly happy that I can enjoy social media as it was ment to be, sharing memes and cst pictures, pictures of coffee, fun and sad moments in life without the fear of some JK Rowling shit goblin suddenly appearing to "debate" my existence on a photo of me with cold brew on a Monday morning along with there thousand other little shit goblins they bring with them.
@mykd @blaine under this system the shit goblins are forced onto a handful of feds that will have them, and then our ausome mods at tech.lgbt just block those feds and we can get on enjoying our lives and cat pictures, so personally having to explain that is a good trade for not having TERFs force there crap on me via a bot farm and a trending page because I dared to see what was in the news 🤷♀️
@BadgerGirl @blaine
I 100% agree and support this strength of the federated network.
My concern is that as more and more people join the fediverse, maintaining the safety and peace of such spaces will mean having to block an increasingly large numbers of accounts.
Unless there are powerful, flexible, targeted tools and processes to support doing so, your mods may just end up saying “screw it we’re defederating from all mastodon.* servers.” All we would all have lost.
@mykd @blaine I talked in a thread roughly about this, there are solutions from kncreased mod teams to AI filtering assistance, though ultimately it should be each fed that decides its own moderation solutions, what works best for them, personally though I don't see an issue with large block lists, if those blocks are right for that fed, personally if I didn't see a giant list of blocked christian and Conservative feds I'd be worried the mods had left me open to harassment.
@mykd @blaine I'm more concerned about what we have been seeing as a strategy of the alt right in recent years of subverting existing communities and groups by infiltrating them, infiltrating the mod teams and slowly turning the place into a vipers nest to steal the authority and reputation of a group that they can't get for there own groups. for example mumsnet.
@BadgerGirl @blaine
Yes, technical solutions will need to be able to do a lot more at the interfaces between instances esp with a greater variety of tool as you and Blaine have mentioned.
I agree that still leaves space for bad actors to subvert each community. We know that the more isolated a group is, the greater the likelihood that its beliefs and norms drift away from those of other groups. Bad actors can weaponise that. The more connected we stay, the harder that gets.