@p @anonymous @ins0mniak >Yeah. Anywhere that happens and can be sort of centrally enforced, so as long as you don't build a rudder, no one can put their hands on the wheel and move the boat. This is why the mastodongs keep trying to build a centralized authority over the fediverse: they want a rudder. I'm sure most of them don't understand what happens when you build a rudder, but I'm also certain that some of them do.

I mean, look at BlueSky. They love the idea of BlueSky because they don't have to take accountability for their consequences or do any of the heavy moderation lifting. They can click report and the mean person goes away.

Compare this to the fediverse, where all they can do is make some centralized blocklist like thebad.space or FediSeer.com. But then when their own instances or pals end up blocked by many importing these lists, that's when the fun really begins. Which is what OP documented, the kind of people using these fucking tools getting eaten by their own creations.