• woelkchen@lemmy.worldM
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    10 months ago

    Mastodon users can already block entire domains. Unless it’s legally required, there’s hardly a reason why the admins would need to take the decision away from the users.

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      10 months ago

      The whole point is that instance owners/admin are allowed to run their instance however they want

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        10 months ago

        The whole point is that instance owners/admin are allowed to run their instance however they want

        Absolutely. My comment wasn’t about mandating an all open policy to all instance admins. Just saying that they don’t have to make such decisions for their users. It’s different on Lemmy where per user instance blocking will only come in the next release, so for now Lemmy admins kinda have to make such decisions on the behalf of users as well.

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      10 months ago

      I agree. Everyone should be able to decide for themselves. My only concern is that Fediverse servers will suddenly become expensive to host because of the Threads traffic. But this would also happen with many users on many smaller instances and is not specific to Threads.

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        10 months ago

        Servers pull content based on subscriptions (follows). Meta can’t push content into the Fediverse.

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          10 months ago

          No ActivityPub is explicitly push-based. If you follow someone on a remote server, the remote server pushes their posts to your server. Meta can push content into the fediverse, but like any other user/server they can be blocked if its spammy

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        If the admin decides not to block them it’s the users’ decision. And users can choose not to use instances who block Threads.