Post AzeeJN3sKMJoRxxXnc by juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
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(DIR) Post #AzbmCIwXSPW7oEn0LI by me@jaehanley.social
2025-10-26T13:09:27Z
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@mekkaokereke plus there’s the inherit problem of being an open protocol allowing anyone to harass. Every now and then a Nazi will pick up one of my posts, boost it, and then I’m just inundated with Nazis that I have to clean up from a variety of instances they prop up to do these sorts of things after their old ones get more widely blocked.The fact that there can be no subscribed to, dynamic blocklist is a safety issue in of itself, and an impediment towards wider adaption.
(DIR) Post #AzbmCKKKJS8i6IvW3k by rapscalorie@cyberplace.social
2025-10-26T15:33:07Z
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@me @mekkaokereke There was a big discourse on Bluesky about these communal blocklists being more harmful than helpful. I don't disagree with some of their points, but I think overall I fall on the side that they are a useful tool. IMO, most of the arguments against are solved by (like many other things in life) being mindful of what blocklists you participate in.
(DIR) Post #AzbmCLfzIP3oHm4KSe by mike@thecanadian.social
2025-10-26T15:48:18Z
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@rapscalorie @me @mekkaokereke I just feel they're too easily weaponized. The ever present question of who decides what's on the block list and the criteria for being added gets complicated quickly with no good answers. I'll keep my own council on whom I block and I won't impose that on anyone else.
(DIR) Post #AzbmCMMWkF5WPhyIlc by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-26T17:45:07Z
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@mikeYou are free to your blocklists. You are not free to pick mine. @rapscalorie @me @mekkaokereke
(DIR) Post #AzcSiV2qCA7ggQltse by Nimbius666@comp.lain.la
2025-10-27T01:41:38.991934Z
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@mekkaokereke the problem I believe is similar. You've taken a captive audience and given them real choice, and in doing so paralyzed them.
(DIR) Post #AzeeJN3sKMJoRxxXnc by juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
2025-10-27T15:55:41Z
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@mekkaokereke @JamesPink @Enema_Cowboy Yeah, that is the way.Mastodon.social is effectively "too big to block" for most other instances right now, which is problematic. We need the Fediverse to spread out more, which will encourage better moderation - with the right tools, of course.
(DIR) Post #AzeeJOJVfiQ2KkHXo8 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-28T03:01:00Z
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@juergen_hubertI politely disagree that it's too big to block; very many of us have dropped entire large ecosystems (Facebook et al) and in essence blocked myself from seeing all those people. I don't see how blocking an oversized instance is materially different. Not that i think it will happen. @mekkaokereke @JamesPink @Enema_Cowboy
(DIR) Post #AziURjAvlqgKRTRfma by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-10-29T16:07:43Z
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@mekkaokerekeMekka you have to be my favorite poster on the fediverseEvery post you write makes me thinkI take it is as a dear conviction the fediverse must grow. And so at your first sentence I'm feeling antipathy. But by the end of your comment, I'm agreeing with you. You're challenging me in the best of waysWe need growth, but at what cost? And you make me consider the costs. They cannot be hand waved away, as some would do. These costs must be addressed and erased before any growth
(DIR) Post #AziURkklu4wfKvDoHo by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-29T23:29:20Z
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@benroyceThis "grow" nonsense applies to *everything*. Growth on and of itself is ideology, can it be separated from capitalism at this point? To messy to try. We need to make good connections, not just many of them. This is the lesson for the rest of this century. @mekkaokereke