[mikece]

I find it funny that there are "block lists" distributed to Mastodon admins listing reasons for why certain nodes should be blocked; my favorite is the "free speech" category of nodes to block. It would be one thing if nodes were blocked for hate speech, science denial, or spreading misinfo, but free speech? The epidemic of people blocking so many Mastodon instances/enclaves is hurting the migration away from Twitter: why go to Mastodon if it's more balkanized than federated? Just let individual users block others on the Fediverse -- like Twitter supports.

[rsynnott]

> Just let individual users block others on the Fediverse

As a user, this sounds like a lot of work. There are instances that don't defederate at all, and you can use those if you want, but... it wouldn't be for most people, I don't think.

[oldnet]

I ran away from Twitter because of Musk but I will (maybe) go back because of your point.