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The group of people who are trying to divide the fediverse seem to have reached a new low.. They have a tool that lists how many instances block a particular instance, but it is highly manipulative.
For starters it is hand curated.. so they exclude blocks against their own instances and only includes instances they actually dislike.
Worse yet they curate a list ordered by "most blocked".. problem is they use the number of instances that block. They game the system by having large number of single-user instances. So instances in the top 50 may only be blocked by a few hundred people but still appear as if the blocks are significant....
This is why we need transparency, its why we need the https://UFoI.org
@freemo @ufoi Nothing screams #transparency like "Members of the UFoI will be temporarily hidden until the last stage of launch"
@freemo Because it seems a highly political endeavour.
For example, in your own toot you use wordings like "curated" and "they game" and "they exclude". Many points I am highly sympathetical with. But they could well have been phrased without adversarial affect ("this system of hand-curated lists can skew and also be gamed").
You can probably see why I'm skeptical that your initiative is any better *in particular* because it seems to expressly require a... curated set of members to bootstrap.
@sehe The acceptance into the UFoI will be transparent, transparency is key. If you think the system is gamed you can see it and it will be in the open. So you will be able to judge that yourself.
We also encourage other federations to form and federations will either endorse enachother or not.
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I might be sniffing the wrong scent here, in which case consider it community feedback to improve communication.
It should Also be noted that the #UFOI isn’t launched yet. Once it’s launched, I assume all members will be public.