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I wrote an open letter to artists and other creatives who are thinking about giving the fediverse a chance: (stefanbohacek.online)

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I wrote an open letter to artists and other creatives who are thinking about giving the fediverse a chance:

"There’s a better way!"

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/a-fediverse-invitation-for-artists/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@[email protected] A net benefit with respect to what goals? Certainly not the goals of Mastodon, and certainly not your goals if you value diversity on the network. Mastodon is a decentralized and distributed network. The FediBlock lists only serve to curtail that network. The network is literally more centralized with the FediBlock lists than without them, and the more these lists are used, the more homogenous values and perspectives become on the network. Which seems antithetical to your stated goals as well.

This is also a pretty big problem, and a primary complaint that I hear from people who decide to leave this platform. Completely normal servers with normal people have blocked each other without any beef, because FediBlock lists are automated, and the curation of those lists are handled by only a small handful of people, sometimes one individual. You can check the lists for yourself. All it takes is one person on one instance to say something that pisses off one of the curators of these lists and then, boom, two normal and otherwise amicable servers are now defederated.

It just seems incredibly immature to me. Admins should just grow up and use the built-in block feature to block individuals they find troubling instead of blocking entire instances over the actions of a few. The end result is often thousands of normal people not being able to follow each other because a couple people had a squabble. That's incredibly dumb.