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A depiction of Plato's cave. The shadows on the wall are labelled blocklists. The priests casting those shadows are labelled mastodon. Above, people climb out to discover the real world, full of real things, not mere shadows. Be like those people. Imagine there could be more than what mastodon shows you, and go find it.

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A depiction of Plato's cave. The shadows on the wall are labelled blocklists. The priests casting those shadows are labelled mastodon. Above, people climb out to discover the real world, full of real things, not mere shadows. Be like those people. Imagine there could be more than what mastodon shows you, and go find it.
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Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 23:57:47 JST Jenniferplusplus

Ascending up a level yet again, from what @hrefna and @inthehands are saying:
https://hachyderm.io/@hrefna/112874680998858258
The options and capabilities that mastodon provides ("affordances") both reflect and shape assumptions about what can or should be done. There are reasons we spend so much time talking about block lists. A very big one is because that's the only option that mastodon provides.
I desperately want us to imagine more than that.
An illustration, if you will:

In conversation about 4 months ago from hachyderm.io permalink