I got interested in this #UFOI stuff lately and it makes my brain hurt and heart sink. What a drama on all sides.

I think it's a great example of #MastoAdmin silly games and feuds at the expense of users of these instances. An admin A does not like admin B and that is the reason for blocking thousands of users of B's instance from thousands of users of A. And that we call "moderation", right? Nice! (mind you, if B's users are ugly people in A's userbase opinion _en masse_, that's another story)

I even read from somebody that all what is wrong with an instance is that its users tend to be mildly annoying and that's a good reason to defederate the instance (https://witches.live/@anna/109480217595539880). Lovely. And that's how we want to become a better alternative to corporate social networks? Good luck boys and girls in the #MastoAdmin world! This way you only lose trust of us, the normal users of this network.

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Sincerely yours,

"Annoying reply guy"

@piggo Well, I understand you run your own instance, so it's your personal choice. But if you do the same when you have thousands of users at your instance, you are effectively preventing ALL of them to interact with the other one. What right do you have to do that? I mean, if the rules clearly state that that you are the dictator there, I am fine with that. But most of the time it's not the case. And then 2 things happen:
1. you feel good about yourself because you won the game; and
2. your users end up shafted.

As a born guerrilla fighter, I see a potential for an uprising of users against admins here.