@rio thanks for explaining!

when I was an active developer and was hosting a gnusocial node, I used to say that domain blocking was one of the good features with decentralised social media. back then there were some alternatives that used block chain-technology for a completely distributed and completely individualistic system, which I thought was a bad thing.

i think that the semi-decentralised model that email, gnusocial, mastodon, misskey etc uses is a powerful compromise, that gives users a sense of community and responsibility for their node in the network, while still not hiding in a closed secret club. the possibility to block whole servers should be one of the tools the community have to make the server what they want it to be. although i also think it should be transparent exactly which servers are blocked, so users can make informed choices on which server to join/leave.

decentralised social media is not the right tool for free speech fanatics, they should try build some kind of laissez-faire blockchain network (i hope they don't succed).