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1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 01:34:47 EST kaniini

   half of the instances listed on this "blocklist advisory" are being blocked because of the advisory author's personal political preferences.

   http://telegra.ph/Instances-to-silencesuspend-on-Mastodon-06-23

   if you're taking advice from this person, keep in mind that they are applying bias towards instances who are not in entire political alignment with them.

   and they are using my own toots to do it, while they blocked me themselves prior to the publication of my advisory about the 2.distsn.org spam instance, which would be hilarious except i never agreed to have my messages linked from such a diatribe

   1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 01:37:57 EST kaniini

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      which i mean, sure, they didn't have to ask permission obviously.

      but still, i do not endorse that blocklist advisory at all, and want *nothing to do with it*

      my view on blocklist advisories is pretty simple: admins should make their own decisions about who they federate with, which means that they should spend time to research the instances themselves and make up their own mind. blocklist advisories which have prescriptive content are therefore toxic.

      1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 01:42:24 EST kaniini

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         and finally, to be absolutely clear: if you're going to publish a "blocklist advisory" (or any other "advisory") and you mention somebody you are blocking for some reason, meaning they cannot contact you to request that you *do not do this*, it is really a dick move

   2. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2018 05:09:37 EST Bob Mottram

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      @kaniini I'll block instances if they're doing illegal stuff (like child abuse) or block annoying individuals if they're just trying to cause trouble, but apart from that many of these advisories are silly.
      
      It's probably not a good idea to block instances because some users had some bad takes or bad hair days at some time in the past. There will always be disagreements and drama. If you block yourself off from much of the fediverse because of trivial reasons then you'll be missing out on a lot of the value it contains.