Simon FrankauJun 10, 2023

I've been watching the conversations around whether or not instances set-up should include a (easily-overridden) default of importing a blocklist for known awful instances.

Those against it pattern match for me with a certain libertarian streak that doesn't want humans making decisions.

In economics, it's the gold standard and free markets. In politics, government is inefficient and should be minimised.

It's the idea that a system with human decision-makers could be undermined...

1/n

Show threadPaul HouleJun 10, 2023
@sgf unfortunately anger is contagious on mastodon-like systems and people who (sometimes) have good things to say boost hateful content; silencing based on user id or server is so 1998, in the transformer age each individual can train their own content-based filter
Show threadjz.tusk

@UP8 @sgf

And they can also form together into communities, and share their efforts to reduce their work loads.

Jun 11, 2023 at 12:08amWeb