Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end?

• xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your original point was that a fediverse without instance blocks would be bad, which is irrelevant to the post because the OP is not advocating for a fediverse without instance blocks:

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  • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used instance block as a synonym for defederating. Now you know what I meant, can we get on with the discussion instead of arguing about things I didn’t mean

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    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Alright. To quote your original comment:

      Yes, and thus you have one giant mega community in which every bigot can access anyone and everyone else.

      How would removing defederation result in a situation where “every bigot can access anyone and everyone else” if user-level instance blocking was still a thing?

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      • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because user level blocking isn’t really blocking. It’s just filtering. The bigots can still see the content of people that have blocked their instance, and they can even reply to it. The only person that can’t see it is the user who configured the “block”

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