Imagine not being able to send an email to your friend because the administrator of the server where they happen to have an account and the admin of your email server have a personal tiff and block emails from each respective servers. None of this has anything to do with you and your friend except for the fact that you can not communicate. Seem familiar? It should because this happens all the time on the #Fediverse. Federation is not a good moderation tool and it's misuse hurts the #Fediverse community as a whole.

@terryenglish is your point that you prefer centralized system where a single central authority decides everything?

In my view, federation seems better. If a situation like you describe happens, the thing to do is either to influence the admin to change policy about blocking the other one, or else move to a different instance that works better for you. You have options, in contrast to the centralized case where you can't do anything if someone get blocked.

@eliasr I don't know how you came to that point at all from what I wrote. My point is to repect the technology and let it work as intended. That will be better for the platform of the #Fediverse as a whole. Why would I even be on here if I believed centralized systems are better?