@apicultor @robustjumprope @faye @mae okay I’m actually going to take your point at face value here.

You don’t need to have read Du contrat social by Rousseau to understand social contracts, but it helps. Your point is fundamentally invalid because there is no social contract. What contract do we have between each other?

You have no rights to see my posts, nor do I have any rights to see yours. You have no rights to federate with my instance, nor does my instance have any rights to federate with yours. There is no social contract because there are no social obligations. There are only social privileges — federation is a privilege granted by honour.

You are clearly confusing a “social contract” with the concept of “social norms”, which refers to the cultural and social mores of a group. Whether this behaviour breaks social norms is one that is debatable, but since a social norm depends on person to person, this is where you may have a point. However, social norms does not a social contract make.

If we want to consider social contract theory more closely, then the only “social contract” on the Fediverse is that between yourself and your Instance administration. But even that is not a social contract — that is a literal contract that you have agreed to with your administration.

Furthermore, a social contract in a true sense refers to the rights and obligations of a person as part of a governance group. If you do not abide by the laws of the land, for example, then you have broken the social contract between yourself and The State, and therefore end up in prison.

To really conclude, however, that you’re totally fucking wrong: a social contract is between a governing body and the governed. There is no governing body on the Fediverse. There is no social contract because rights are not federated, only privileges.

And even so, a social contract between the governed and governor is not a true contract because you are forced to abide by it and cannot escape it.

Ergo, you can log off any time, mate, and I suggest you do.

@apicultor @robustjumprope @faye @mae block all you want, its not going to put the genie back into the bottle, as they say

if you had that expectation, then you should reassess many many MANY things in your life; yes, there is a expectation that things should appear the same for everyone, but social contracts are not "unbreakable vows", they cannot not be broken. in fact, they may not even exist, they're expectations we place on eachother, but we never agreed on "this is how things should be", we only assumed.

gender is one of those things, and yet here i am, fucking it up, are you gonna block me as well?

even this (specific case) is a relatively harmless thing, any incentive for this to get abused can be filled in by any better feature, and the threshold for such things are high, due to the skill involved needing to make the tech to do this kind of stuff

and even then, the knowledge that one server implementation can do this will spread, and people can assume new things

@apicultor @StefanMuenz @mae @faye @mattblaze @gruber @Gargron

Also there isn't really a way for someone on an external server (like Vivaldi) to see what a different server (like Hachyderm) does or not moderate (limit, suspend) - you'd see whatever your server is federating with.