Using the #fediverse is both like browsing and email. We can go look at whatever we want on here, but people can also tag us with whatever they want. This is what makes server level blocking/silencing complicated. We don't like anybody limiting what we can see, but we also don't want the world to be able to send endless shit into our inbox. A healthy fedi will be full of servers fully federated and dedicated to balancing these concerns for their users and the larger network. #fediblockmeta
@wjmaggos https://qoto.org/@olives/111916662003653093
At least part of it seems to be that people expect the fediverse to be something it was never intended to be. A holiday resort. I wrote about that there (among other things).
I don't have a particular problem with someone filtering what comes in to them (rather than admin doing it), although I'd also like not to pretend that some random guy with an instance of about ten users is an "authority" or the "last word" on what ought to be visible.
