I saw a friend on Facebook who was “blocked” for posting a US midterm poll and decided to give up onn#mastodon. I’m not sure what he meant by blocked or what server he was using. Now I see some admins are blocking the journalism instance @adamdavidson@journa.host set up. I know a lot of us are new here, but this does seem like a way of alienating a lot of potential users. Discussing news and politics is one of the main things a lot of us do on a social media platform. I understand working on building a culture of using CW for triggering topics, but I’m not sure about jumping to block people or instances for discussing the biggest news stories of the week.