I always laugh at people who mindlessly follow orders and they don't even know whose orders they're following or why.
I'm on the fediblock list. So if someone blocks me because I'm on that list, who ratted me out? Whose orders are the fediblock troupe following, and what do those orders say?
Why, that would be me. I tagged the person maintaining the fediblock list a bunch of times telling them they're Nazi gestapo and they should add me to their censorship list lest they be called double plus ungood by me.
So essentially anyone who blocks my instance solely because I'm on that list is saying "oh, good catch! I AM a Nazi Gestapo and I'd hate to be called doubleplus ungood!"
I'm on the fediblock list. So if someone blocks me because I'm on that list, who ratted me out? Whose orders are the fediblock troupe following, and what do those orders say?
Why, that would be me. I tagged the person maintaining the fediblock list a bunch of times telling them they're Nazi gestapo and they should add me to their censorship list lest they be called double plus ungood by me.
So essentially anyone who blocks my instance solely because I'm on that list is saying "oh, good catch! I AM a Nazi Gestapo and I'd hate to be called doubleplus ungood!"
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The whole point of fediblock is censorship by mob. Someone affixes a scarlet letter on an instance and everyone nods and goes "oh yah they're bad someone somewhere said so" and blocks them.
The threads thing tbh is the same mentality. A mob swirling about in a tempest in a teacup because meta's failed Twitter clone will join a fediverse that summarily either ignores them or spams them with stuff corpos definitely won't like. I see post after post after post, "defederate defederate defederate" often from people who have only been on the fediverse a month or two, they're just doing what's hip. People on sites like lemmy that'll probably not even properly federate are chanting like it's the most meaningful decision of their lives.
At the end of the day it's individual users decision who to block personally and individual admins decision who to block, and the great part of decentralization is that they can make that decision. But if you're just doing what someone else tells you to do you might as well be back on big tech. Think for yourself, make your own decisions, and at least you can stand by those decisions as manifestations of your own will instead of acting like a tool for someone else.
The threads thing tbh is the same mentality. A mob swirling about in a tempest in a teacup because meta's failed Twitter clone will join a fediverse that summarily either ignores them or spams them with stuff corpos definitely won't like. I see post after post after post, "defederate defederate defederate" often from people who have only been on the fediverse a month or two, they're just doing what's hip. People on sites like lemmy that'll probably not even properly federate are chanting like it's the most meaningful decision of their lives.
At the end of the day it's individual users decision who to block personally and individual admins decision who to block, and the great part of decentralization is that they can make that decision. But if you're just doing what someone else tells you to do you might as well be back on big tech. Think for yourself, make your own decisions, and at least you can stand by those decisions as manifestations of your own will instead of acting like a tool for someone else.