ArakinNov 20, 2022
Last Boost: Pretty frustrating to have to be looking at shifting to another instance just to avoid being blocked-by-association.
Thanks to @SlyCat for the invite, I'm likely to be moving to meow myself to try and avoid this, but I worry that this may happen again there and my social graph will be at the whim of admins (and maybe this opens an avenue for trolls to target an instance to harm the users there)
Show threadGravecat Nov 20, 2022
@arakin @SlyCat It's always a risk, but realistically I think it's mostly only an issue with the mega-instances (particularly masto social) that have just no real moderation at all.
Show threadArakin
@gc I wonder if there's scope in future for untrusted instances to have default restrictions on visibility and follow-requests, whilst still allowing organic following to function
Nov 20, 2022 at 3:32pmWeb
Show threadGravecat Nov 20, 2022

@arakin I always thought that was kinda the entire point of limited (rather than suspended) servers -- largely disconnecting, while still allowing people to follow if they want (e.g. meow.social has mastodon.social limited, but as you can see, we can still interact).

Jumping straight to suspended always seemed a bit overkill to me for anything but the worst of the scummy alt-right servers, but hey, it's still a step up from the whitelist-only walled garden we used to have in the furry servers.