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 This is every discussion about trolls in USENET ever, 30 years ago. Welcome to a decentralized, autonomous server operator world. It's like this, by design - unbannable people, people getting more accounts, people that annoy you. The only thing that works is filtering at the reader end, killfiling, collaborative killfiling. Everything else - nope. Getting people off the network - nope, especially when they operate their own servers or networks.
@Isotopp @Frankenbeans awoo.space seems to do fine...
@Isotopp @Frankenbeans @LogicalDash You also have admins with the ability to ban whole instances at the server level when the instance is abusive. (And abusive can be real or perceived)
This also means some of those instances can be really siloed.
@Isotopp The remedy today is that individual network mods enforce their own rules and individual users get used to blocking people they don't like.