When someone says "We are going to block instance A, you too should defederate them and dissociate. If you are a user on that instance, leave immediately or else you too will be isolated", please remember to ask for reasons, evidence and factual substantiation. Also make sure you search the fediverse using your own search facility and other tools and see if you can find the chain of events that lead to the present situation. This will take time. But make sure you do this. This is specially important if you are an admin of an instance; if you are in charge of other people's accounts. In that case you are taking decisions that will impact on other people's freedoms and experience.
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@lohang
> remember to ask for reasons, evidence and factual substantiation.
they'll twist this into being an admission of guilt.
@bonifartius @lohang most of us freeload on our instance's generosity, and actually have no standing to question such decisions. Those who contribute to their instance have some standing, and I think should be questioning instance-level blocks on principle. Maybe if individual accounts could be whitelisted by users, it would be workable.
CC'ing @freemo
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@tetrislife @bonifartius @lohang
I have literally gotten a personal block (and on rare occasions an instance block) specifically for politely requesting evidence.. The toxicity can at times really be out of control.
