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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Feb-2021 19:35:36 EST lnxw48a1
   https://sporks.space/2021/02/02/mastodon-really-is-crumbling-and-it-will-only-get-worse/
   
   What an awful perspective! If the #Fediverse is an unpleasant place, it is because there are unpleasant people (or ordinary people acting in unpleasant ways) in it.
   
   I do agree that misusing the ‘title’ field as ‘content warning’ is insufficient. For one thing, even assuming the person captions the post appropriately, now your mind is already exposed to whatever bad content they’re posting. It would be _much_ better to teach people to hashtag all their posts appropriately, so that people who do not wish to see said content can filter it out and people who specifically want to see said content can subscribe to that tag. Mastodon got that part very wrong.
   
   But the writer’s instance is sometimes part of the problem ... a source of instigation and harassment. Or more correctly, that instance has sometimes been those things. I’ve been fortunate not to see them in my timeline for over a year.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Feb-2021 19:51:30 EST lnxw48a1

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      I think #Blockwars (and its #Fediblock subsidiary) is a negative thing for the network.
      
      I want these sites to give individual users much more control over their own interactions, so that instance admins can concentrate on protecting against things which could violate laws or ToS. Someone uses racist, sexist, right-wing / left-wing negative stereotypes? Block them yourself.
      
      Years ago, Pownce had a feature where you couldn’t just subscribe/follow someone unless it was mutual. I think Friendica had that at one time, but AFAIR, that was removed in order to federate better with StatusNet and Diaspora. Pownce was acquired and shut down, but we haven’t seen a lot of networks (federated or centralized) pick up their secret sauce and build a better burger with it.