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A month ago, everyone: "Yay, the freedom of decentralized social media where communities can form around their own values and according to their own internal rules."
Today, everyone: "What we need is a central code of conduct by which everyone must conform or risk punishment imposed by people outside their community."
New boss, same as the old boss.
@Frankenbeans Yup, forming a "whitelist council" will kill the momentum of the Mastodon project and hurt single instances of people who want decentralized social media. 🤓
@james @Frankenbeans A whitelist council is the worst idea I have heard - has it really been suggested by someone?
@Frankenbeans @gargron @james First time I saw it floated, it followed on the suggestion that there be a common blocklist to which admins vote by bot to add instances, and when votes reach a threshold, instances whould be added to a shared blocklist.