• Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      Yes, and thus you have one giant mega community in which every bigot can access anyone and everyone else. Which is what a Fediverse without instance blocks would be like

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            10 months ago

            What? The question was literally “Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end?”.

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                10 months ago

                Defederation is done by the instance administrator and affects all users. Instance blocking is done by the user and affects only them.

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                  10 months ago

                  Instance blocks have been admin/instance level before user level instance blocks were a thing. User level instance blocks are more accurately user level filters. Only admin level instance blocks are true blocks.

                  Admin level blocks are what I’m referring to in this conversation and that most people assume when they see the term “instance block”

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                    10 months ago

                    But the OP specifically talked about how the new ability to block instances can replace defederation, so it’s clear what they had in mind.