I'm generally against instances blocking and muting people, but I'm 100% in favor of doing it myself.
The difference between me and the typical #fediblock #fediblockmeta stan is that if there's content that's offensive or hurts my feelings, I block the account. If one of the stans comes across objectionable or controversial content, they'll demand that the entire #fediblock #fediblockmeta community block the instances or account.
My experience on free speech instances is wonderful specifically because of the blocks I've instated. And I forgot how wild and reckless the federated timeline on the free speech portion of the #Fediverse is until I convinced a #Fediverse user to try out social.teci.world in order to test #Soapbox lol
I always emphasize that when an instance puts up a block, that disempowers its own users to decide whether or not to block.
When a user decides to block, they are engaging their power to make that decision.
I think the contrast is stark: empowering versus disempowering people.
For that reason I'm firmly against #fediblock type efforts on #fediverse.
