Perfect example of one of the dozen or so reasons why Mastodon is doomed to relative obscurity and Bluesky is going to thrive: petulant nannyism:
@gruber every service is going to have nannys and scolds. Twitter was no different. Bluesky will have them too. What makes you think mastodon is uniquely doomed because of its nannys?
@jsatk @gruber One thing I'll be interested to see is how much Mastodon admins are driven by maximal connectivity.
Twitter, Bluesky, &c are driven by maximum user uptake and connectivity metrics (and with money in play, that's what they chase). It creates incentives to keep troublemakers if they don't make *enough* trouble.
If most Mastodon node admins aren't driven by a maximization mindset, blocks, bans, and defederation will flow a lot more freely and it'll end up being a more fragmented network than a Bluesky.
(Now, whether that's a bad thing is left as an exercise for the reader).
