CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@wjmaggos @evan Something that has become especially clear as I've started up my own instance, is that inter-instance moderation is already built in to the architecture of the Fediverse. The federated timeline is dependent on the follows of the accounts on your instance.

Every post that ends up on the federated timeline is there because someone interacted with a post from someone that someone on your instance follows. If the instance of the account you follow already has a reasonably active moderation the most obnoxious instances would already be blocked. The moderation from your instance affects the timeline on every instance with an account that follows your instance.

I could see a pretty strong argument for coordinating blocklists among large instances, as their federated timelines would already be exposed to questionable actors. And those larger instances would have more popular figures who could be targets of harassment campaigns. But going so far as to package the blocklists *on a software level* so that every small instance is following the same cultural standards by default, as decided by an insular group of activists who by definition have the privilege of free time make these things is a type of structural risk to be concerned about

@liaizon makes exactly as much sense as life itself

@liaizon Part of why the fediverse so appeals to me so much is that fedi *can* be made to coexist with nearly any given social form that people may choose to take part in. The state, commercial interests, even socially repressive cults and abusive family relationships can in theory exist within a federated model. They just need to have genuine public support and be robust to independent criticism.

It forces every person taking part, to realize that society is, and always has been *their own* responsibility.