Emma Kennedy@[email protected] I hope you can see this. I’m told there’s a blocking issue on servers. I can’t follow you at the moment. As soon as I can, I will again.
Kepilo@EmmaKennedy I've heard a few things like this, plus instances blocking instances. Seems disconcerting.
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑@kepilo @EmmaKennedy Different instances have different policies, for example a lot of servers block mastodon.scot due to controversial decisions regarding who they let join.
@WhyNotZoidberg @EmmaKennedy This renders Mastodon far less of a good thing if they're going to be blocking and effectively restricting access. On the face of it, sounds worse than Twitter.
@kepilo @EmmaKennedy no, it's better than Twitter. If you don't like the moderation policy of your instance find another. But keep in mind that almost all instances block things Twitter let slide like racism, transphobia, homophobia, etc.
The benefit is of course that unlike Twitter hate speech and other disgusting activities actually are blocked.
Tomasz Oryński@WhyNotZoidberg @kepilo @EmmaKennedy not really. You might like moderating instance of your instance (or know nothing about it, like I just learned from you about some controversies regarding mastodon.scot where I am) and yet be blocked by other instances thus massively limiting your reach.
@kepilo @WhyNotZoidberg @EmmaKennedy yeah. And if I have to constantly monitor what beef moderators of my instance have with moderators.of other servers and who blocks whom to ensure that I can interact with people hosted in different places then I hardly see this as improvement...