Also Named Bort 🇨🇦 @terryenglish@librem.one

@fireglow @terryenglish

Oh boy, here's where I piss off the other side and have nobody to talk to :(

In the past 5 years, I've learned that some users want choices abstracted from them. That, of itself, is their choice.

It's why I think the list of "global" blocks for an instance should be public. It's one of the things you compare when you "shop" for a place to make your Mastodon account.

If Joe Blow wants their feed curated, more power to them.

@fireglow
Well and the dude calls me racist and all the rest while saying "white people this" and "white people that" and more than anything I'm confused, assuming I'd missed something.

If it really was "if user.bigot { dont_federate};" I'd be all for it, but the gotcha is always the corner cases, and that'd require some serious advances in AI

The whole storm started when I slowly tried to bring dude to that conclusion
@terryenglish

@fireglow @terryenglish
I also think, for people like that (and corporate users too, for compliance reasons), 'federate ONLY with instances I allow' definitely needs to be an option.

Instance Admins are users too.

The frustration is from the blanket assumption that I'm not at least trying to look out for dude's interests, just because I'm Irish.

@terryenglish @r000t I'm in agreement witih Terry here.

What I was going to say:
I certainly would never deploy or use such a system. Strongly worded, but let me explain:
A system that takes these VERY IMPORTANT choices out of the users hands is pure evil.
At best I could imagine something like "Here's some instance blocks we think you'd enjoy".
But in all honesty, I think such a system is an ideal tool for people to a) abuse, and b) unwary ones to shoot themselves in the foot with.
Automatic censorship is something very dangerous, I believe.
People should have the opportunity to be able to change their minds the very next day. A instance blocklist, hidden ten clicks away in settings, hinders that greatly.
I think technology should only ever be used to connect people, not wall them off.
Just my two cents.

digging a hole to bury all my bullshit into and then climbing into the hole to bury myself with my bullshit forever

@terryenglish @r000t so I was wondering why I didn’t see any replies, opened the page in safari. That instance is just so cringy, i muted it on my account two days after joining the verse. I hope it’s an elaborate troll.

A nice Saturday treat! 💓

man screw those dang ol white people man like god dang it man
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Oh shit! Kiwi Farms is on fedi now and they used Pleroma like chads instead of fucking up Mastodon with the power of autism.
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limmy has mad lyrics yo
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RT from @Feuerfuchs

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who will join the fediverse next?

Thanks, @mono
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Gab’s main contribution to the fediverse is getting kiwifarms to join

why the fuck are you assholes voting for the 5€ shirt snfiubfuidbfds

@igeljaeger your mistake was believing in democracy

#caturday

going to one of my only friend's birthday parties tonight: What should I wear?

Try this sleep business again... shazammm!
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