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/)

Update: #Nivenly has formally placed the #FSEP project on hold.

https://nivenly.org/blog/2023/11/14/updates-for-october-and-november/#federation-safety-enhancement-project-fsep

#TheBadSpace #FediblockMeta

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?

#FediBlockMeta

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