I find the "Being blocked because we refuse to de-federate" quite annoying, really. Sounds like Elementary school clique type behaviour.
In the case of Mr. Furrow, which you can see from my original letter (fully copied in the Blog post) that I addressed him formal and courteously -- in a Business like letter.
He responded at first in the same manner, but got annoyed by a partial quote and a word in particular, which had been used by another staff member -- "Naive".
The response was what you saw above.
BUT --- I am also very concerned about the Effects of those bans, which have spread to other instances (some irrelevant, others not). AND -- in how it affects me, as a User here.
I have been denied service in some cases due to the instance address being used. I do have various accounts and use them lightly. But this is now changing.
This is my main one, but I will be writing (long) about how this is concerning me, as a Content Producer (writer, publisher, Blog author, educator, etc).
I have already started to re-locate some of my posting to other instances. As to reach the widest possible distribution is important to me.
I will detail how that happened, and how it is working now.
We are all Travellers, the way I see it, and I like to see different ports, this is one of the beautiful aspects of the #Fediverse I enjoy.
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The main issue as I see it is when you cave to pressure that you yourself see as unjust you effectively promote such behavior into the future. You tell them their tactics work and that you care more about their community than the communities they oppress.
And as part of free speech, I feel it's perfectly fine to show the consequences of the fedi blocks, there are. You are talking strategically, as an admin with a mind set and a concrete place you have built.
I am writing as a free thinker, and someone who could use any of a number of available services. There are consequences.
The problem is, as I've stated before we are int he top 20 most fedrated instances.
So the consequence isnt "My voice doesn't have reach".. the consequence is "My voice doesnt have reach specifically among oppressive instances that have acted childishly".
The fact that you see this as a consequence rather than as a positive is alarming because it shows you value more your reach to oppressive instances than tolerant ones, even when the tolerant instances out number the oppressive ones. Instances you yourself labeled as childish.
Do you really not see why that is a concerning pattern of behavior and ultimately promotes such childishness to continue to run rampant?
For the record as I said before I have **no** issue with you discussing this publicly, or sharing your viewpoint here. It is, as always, welcome.
What I am suggesting is that it is a line of thinking that not only hurts you, but the community, as it promotes the very sort of behavior you find distasteful by caving to it. Even at the cost of reducing your own reach in the process.
@freemo @design_RG I think there may have been a misunderstanding above with one of the "you"'s that was talking about other instances caving to peer pressure and following someone else's rules, and not "you" you.
When I say caving to pressure I am refering to anyone who responds to those "childish" blocks by trying to move to servers those people doing the blocking sanction (which are by their nature oppressive of minorities and the general public when it doesnt agree with their desired politics).
@freemo That makes sense.
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