@stux Spam or other technical reasons are perfectly legitimate in my opinion to block. If I were an admin I'd probably remove Gab from the TWKN timeline but would remain otherwise federated with them. Sure there are some people with vile opinions on there but that the world. Keeping them isolated only seems to be making them crazier. @GreenLantern@mas.to @KoalaBeans@mstdn.social

@terryenglish Yeah I know but Gab is still a grey area at this point for me so better to be sure 😉 It's also a big exception ofc! I don't like blocking since it limits federated, freedom, etc.. Btw, they also broke federation for the most part roght? @GreenLantern @KoalaBeans

@stux You are absolutely right. Gab has silenced most of the Fediverse doing the work of those who hate them most for them. It's a more a business for the creator of Gab than about freedom and he doesn't want anyone jumping ship to a better run site with more competent administrators. @GreenLantern@mas.to @KoalaBeans@mstdn.social

@stux Gab is also a litmus test for a lot of the most extreme mastodon instances who strive for ideological purity. By not blocking Gab a good deal of mastodon instances would then block you in retaliation for non compliance. So definitely political costs associated with not blocking Gab in this part of the Fediverse. @GreenLantern@mas.to @KoalaBeans@mstdn.social

@stux Fortunately though as the Fediverse attracts more people and expands those purity obsessed instances will become a minority and their purity games will no longer matter. @GreenLantern@mas.to @KoalaBeans@mstdn.social

@terryenglish @stux @GreenLantern @KoalaBeans I don't like gab, but i feel that's not the fault of the users, they're not allowed to talk to anyone that would argue their opinion.

I mean, it's literally just Right Wing twitter. If the community was much more open to criticism, there wouldn't be much of what's going on now where they're all crazy

@terryenglish @GreenLantern @KoalaBeans @stux gab could be a perfectly fine right wing conservative cesspit, but putting them in a echo chamber is just making them go insane.
They think they're better than twitter, but they're literally just the right wing version of twitter.

and it's full of boomers because anyone with half a braincell would realize that they're literally in a echo chamber

@GreenLantern @KoalaBeans @stux @terryenglish you can't stick people in a pit, that just makes them crazier.

@Jessica I agree. @GreenLantern@mas.to @KoalaBeans@mstdn.social @stux

@terryenglish @Jessica @GreenLantern @KoalaBeans

0w0 it's a monster post now! let me read!

@stux @terryenglish @GreenLantern @Talloran @KoalaBeans
>blocks Gab
>follows me
I don't get it.

@Ricotta @stux @GreenLantern @KoalaBeans @Talloran @terryenglish Hates Boomers; not Nazis.

@rasterman @GreenLantern @KoalaBeans @Talloran @stux @terryenglish Fair.