@alex Re-read their block list. Almost all the people I interact with are from instances listed on there. It really tells how much these people care about being open. Kinda ironic because the very first word on ActivityPub's Wikipedia page is "open".
@r @alex
This mentality is so subtly but importantly wrong.
No one has an obligation to federate with anyone. This is *true* freedom. That's how real life works too.
The Fediverse is fractured, which is inevitable and natural, because the Fediverse most closely resembles real life, which is also fractured into communities.
btw, the "open" means "non proprietary".
@torresjrjr @r @alex
> This is *true* freedom.
...For the admins, not the people using the instance. It's not a coincidence that the admins that are the most block-happy are the least transparent. People making decisions on behalf of others is the antithesis of freedom.
> This is *true* freedom.
...For the admins, not the people using the instance. It's not a coincidence that the admins that are the most block-happy are the least transparent. People making decisions on behalf of others is the antithesis of freedom.
@p
This has always been my biggest worry. Mastodon is especially notorious for not just keeping control away from the end user, but also gaslighting said user.
Instead of a message saying "Communication with this server isn't possible because of a block on this server.", it just pretends people don't exist.
@r @alex @torresjrjr
@r000t @r @alex @torresjrjr Yeah, the users and the other admins. I remember the witches.live admin doing that lengthy freakout, "PLEROMA ALLOWS FASCISTS TO CONDUCT PASSIVE SURVEILLANCE" because she thought that if she blocked FSE, FSE would somehow know this and stop fetching posts. Gargulon actually argued against disclosing server blocks and kept them out for a long time (allegedly because this would "enable harassment") but it just means that nobody knows if they've been blocked, especially not the server in question.
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