The event that played out yesterday in the #FediBlock tag is illustrative of why instance admins generally find the tag useless. What was conceived as a tag to highlight extremely blatant dangers has devolved into personal feuds and grievances, watering down the entire project.
For more discussion, see this excerpt from "Findings Report: Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers" (https://fediverse-governance.github.io/)
Updates to #TheBadSpace have fixed one concern (how many sources?) but surfaced another: the supposed independence of the "trusted sources". Here for example: @lunasother dared .art to block them, which they did. Fine.
But apparently, so did 3-4 other (supposedly unrelated) admins as well.
What good is a "consensus" system if half the voters are acting in lock-step?
Since removing a number of sources (union.place, sunny.garden, artisan.chat, simcha.lgbt) from its "Trusted Sources" list, I would expect #TheBadSpace to now have *less* information in its database than before. After all, if every source tracking an instance is removed, shouldn't the instance entry also be dropped?
No! In fact, the number of traced instances has *increased* since a week ago, despite sources being removed.
What does it mean to remove a "trusted source" then?
#FediBlockMeta #FediBlock It seems now that artisan.chat has left the inner circle of the cult, the remaining members are hard at work again throwing out BS accusations in an attempt to destroy them at all costs. Just as they did with Nina, and with imdat, and the others who exited the room.
Former believers who leave the cult will be discredited and punished, so no outsiders will believe them, while those still on the inside see the dangers of leaving themselves.
@TheGoodSpace
Something that lots of folks in this convo are probably not aware of is that the Bad Space isn't just another blocklist or website. It's at the center of a plan called FSEP which (at least initially), during the setup of a new fediverse instance, would load the Bad Space blocklist, and only that blocklist, by default. If the scheme is deployed the instances on that list could end up being defederated from most of the fediverse. Agreement from only two "trusted sources" is required to affirm an entry on the Bad Space.
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