feinzerFeb 4, 2023
Ok

Mastodon.art suspended me for interacting with people from blocked instances however I won't just go around and block every instance in their own blocklist when I haven't seen any issues from these instances myself.

Let me be clear, I will block anything that I find or gets reported to me that contains racism, homophobia, extremism, pedophilia, harassment and anything of the sort. But I just won't import a blocklist that I do not approve myself.

This whole notion does not make sense for single user instances. Especially with the fact that even if I interact with someone from a blocked instance the other server will not receive the blocked instance post, only mine.

I do find it sad that many people are pushing for more small instances but when you manage one you get blocked for not moderating OTHER instances?

This will only push users into signing up to bigger instances and discourage people to host their own
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@feinzer mastodon.art defed'd me for shitposting in #fediblock because that warrants defed ig
other ppl block me because of mastodon.art blocking me and that "clearly" being a red flag

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Show threadfeinzerFeb 4, 2023
@Mia I mean you could argue about harassment and what not. I personally do not see the hashtag as something I depend on so I wouldn't block you for joking around it

But some wanted the hashtag to be a sort of warning channel for issues like mass harassment, racism, homophobia and stuff. But as always, some just weaponized it against people they didn't like and it turned into a complete mess lol
Show threadaiMFeb 4, 2023
@feinzer #fediblock has always been a tool for causing pain across fedi. fedi was designed for federation, using central blocks lists or things like #fediblock goes directly against this, exactly why again one should manage their own instance and blocklist
Show threadfeinzerFeb 4, 2023
@Mia I mostly agree but a better use for fediblock imo was as public report / warning channel for issues that happen instance wide. (Which is not uncommon to have a group of people attack another for whatever stupid or awful reason)

Everyone would need to check these issues for themselves and decide if they want to block or not. But people are lazy and would rather just block right away, giving others a way to weaponize it because having your name on it meant getting blocked without question.