No instance should ever be "too big to block"
If it is "too big to block"
It should be blocked for being too big
Anyway, we all got m dot s and m dot online blocked
If your userbase is over 10k users, you're next!
I'm serious about this
The only real power that other admins have to rein in a bad admin on another instance is the power to say "you fucked up so bad that we're blocking you"
So yes, we should all be blocking the big instances unless we all trust that somehow that power magically won't corrupt in this case
Scholar limits any instance with open registrations and 10k+ active users
No it doesn't matter if your instance is "one of the good ones"
How long can you guarantee that every single member of your moderation team will be perfect?
Why should we trust you to never need any external accountability?
Yes the 10k line is arbitrary, but defensible
It has to be drawn somewhere, otherwise we will end up in a situation where we have an instance that is "too big to block"
So, sorry, but we'll un-silence you if you let us know when you close your registrations
@researchfairy honestly this feels like a pretty reasonable policy. If one of the goals of Mastodon is to foster smaller interconnected communities then it only makes sense to limit the size of a community. Otherwise we just end up recreating the same environment as other large social media sites.
