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Daily reminder that blocking other instances or users, on a server level (so instance admins blocking them) is a very bad practice. It breaks the fediverse. It is not transparent at all so no one even knows when and how it happens; and it is a decision that can affect hundreds of thousands of users without them being aware of.

bad bad bad.

What is with this scared attitude that "Oh my god this account/instance posts horrendous stuff. Block it mister admin!" ?! Calm down folks. Learn how to take care of your online life without having parents looking after you. You can block anyone you want. In the long term this is a much better attitude, and you become a more stable-minded creature.

To cripple a network like the fediverse simply because some are too sensitive to block what they do not want to see, so they need others to block for them, is beyond retarded.

There we go...my rant....now how about you block me and my instance now!? :D - Maybe you feel too offended. But wait I will never know if I am blocked anyway....so sad and stupid.

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Roma

Totally agree on that point. That's so called "information hygiene", it's a thing that is never been taught to people, but I would say it must have thing in our infomational century we just statring to live in. Of course the first fearful reaction of unprepared mind on the unpleasant information is to cancel/block/destruct/blow up entirely without any hesitation. I want to believe that people will become more sane after all, as well as you mentioned Tio - with the new more flexble tools to control own personal information streams.

I'm not sure if friendica's already having this ability, but it might be a good idea to give the block function for an entire instance to each user personally, not only admins. In this case users can decide only for themselves if they don't want to see the posts or contact the users of that server without affecting anybody else and actually making these decisions for all other users. This is respectful freedom I would like to see :)

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Tio

Currently Friendica does not have such a feature...but it is something I would insist they would add :D . And you are right, we are faced with this digital world but we are not taught, or at least have discussions about how to manage this online life of ours. That's why many react immediately and not thinking about the consequences of censoring/blocking content and people. The school should be for such things....but it is not.
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