Yeah, block list sharing is something that has to come to the fediverse, and it needs to be platform agnostic.
Kichae
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It can be, it just involves contacting the site that hosts the top-level post and having it forward the replies itself. It'd be a change to the distribution model, and not a simple one, but can absolutely be done.
The issue isn't where the content lands, it's the erasure of the local. The idea of branding is to help create a local community on the server that has access to the rest of the social web, rather than an impersonal general node on the network.
What we really want is people who are into, I don't know, really into Mazdas coming together to talk to each other on MazdaFans.social, with bespoke theming and branding, while also having access to anything else that they want from startrek.social, weirdbugs.social, etc. What we have is everyone on generic omninodes looking for hashtag mazda, totally unsure if they'll find anything.
For a lot of Twitter users, this is their first collapse and migration. Usually these events make people more mobile in the future.
I wonder if and when they'll start moving on from Bluesky? What event will trigger it next time? How much the experience will have to fall apart before they pack up and move? My money is on 'way less than last time'.
Not the same, no, but it offers enough to get people started, and keep them happy.
Which Mastodon just kind of refuses to do.
It's really showing the huge issues with fediverse monoculture, too, that is driven in no small part by Mastodon. Mastodon is designed with very limited theming, very limited ability to self-brand, etc. It's designed so that every Mastodon website looks just like every other. This gives most people the impression that Mastodon is a place on the Internet, in the same way that, say, Facebook is, rather than a website platform like WordPress.
The magic of being able to see what people post on other websites from the one you're using gets totally overwritten by the expectation that everything is actually the same place. And once you have that expectation, Mastodon kind of feels broken. "What do you mean I can't see all of the comments? Why not?", "What do you mean you're denying me access to those people over there?", etc.
And don't even get me started on the people lobbying for limited functionality because they want to own the commons and dictate how people use the public and open communication protocol.
It's all so frustrating, and sad.
The trolls and fascists do not exist on Twitter to hang out with other trolls and fascists. They're there hunting for liberal tears. When their prey leaves, they follow.
Bluekky has been open about not moderating their platform. They've provided users tools to not see the shit they're letting through the door -- which, yes, is currently better than Twitter, where the current ownership believes that 'free speech' is deserving of a captive audience -- but if the bsky algorithm thinks you have something -- anything, really -- in common with the Nazis, they'll get shunted into your timeline, leaving you to play wack-a-mole.
Misskey and its forks have had user recommendations for forever now. Suddenly this is an issue for Mastodon, but it wouldn't have been an issue for the fediverse if Mastodon didn't have a functional monopoly over the conversation.
People just very badly want to not know about other fediverse platforms for some reason.
And sitting on the couch with their dicks in their hands is "hard work" for them, but it's just jerking off for the rest of us. These assholes consider themselves working when they sleep, because them being rested is "good for the business".
It's best use case is self-hosting by established creators funded primarily by patreon subscribers, rather than new creators. But established creators won't abandon the platform with their viewers. So, it's a bit of a jam.
Fediverse platforms also just seem terribly uninterested in supporting creatives' business models, so we get a high minded desert.
User-level moderation isn't moderation. It's a downloading of responsibilities onto the user, but it's not moderation. It's the opposite of moderation.