In short i just jumped into the whole Mastodon blocking drama and am somewhat disappointed to see it as childish as reddit’s power mod drama. Accelerated by the fact that a Limit/Mute option exist just fine, i wonder why Block/Defederation is an option at all. It only moves power from the user to admins without anything in return. With just Mute, as far as i can tell, one still wouldn’t have to look on certain instances, but could interact/whitelist certain individuals and we’d get rid of the multi account requirement overnight. So why isn’t it that way?
Edit: For those annoyed by the same siloing issues, look into ATProto. Bluesky may be a big unknown, but the protocol itself looks a lot more promising in terms of user freedom.
Why are you acting condescending while do your best to miss the point?
No, they don’t. That’s what Limit is for.
Who said something about billion dollar corpos?
I don’t. Please explain if you know better than i do.
Who said something about Meta?
Which are just as likely to be blocked for arbitrary reasons or blocklist bullying. A simple, but prominent example is mastodon.art.
Yet… you can’t vote…
Again, nice of you to assume things for me.
Last but not least, who said something about corps?
To be civil and adjourn to your argument, sure, i hate Meta like the next one and they should be cut off by design, but that was never the point. I am just advocating for a streamlined user experience where one account can interact with everyone, if they choose to do so. A default black veil by admins is perfectly fine to move their instance in the right direction, but why should it be more than that? Every further action is authoritarian and undemocratic.
You‘re accusing me of the exact thing you‘re doing and aren’t even answering my arguments, blocked.
What arguments? I made my point clear and yet you’re bringing up unrelated topics.
Good luck, i guess.