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involved reached out to ask and get more information.

It's increasingly difficult for me to not side with my users if the alternative is a moderation style that's aggressive and ruthless.

But this isn't about me. When these new Reddit refugees express their concerns about something that seems to have been normalized on #mastodon or the wider #fediverse, I realize that I'm not alone.

Jabber / #XMPP did not have this problem. Neither does email, mainly because it's all private messages, but we better do something to be more responsible with our users to which we owe a sensible moderation instead of doing things on a whim with disregard of the people it affects.

#Lemmy / #Kbin needs to implement silences and Fediblock's popularity needs to be converted into Fedimute.

Fediblocking IMHO is almost only warranted if a remote instance is spammy, harassing or disruptive. Just like blocking spam servers.

Muting should be implemented in such a way that it allows the instance owner to