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@herrabre @falleroffalls if the fediverse continues to increase in numbers of active users then I expect there to be a variety of approaches towards resolving the problems of social relations. Instances which recruit a voluntary or perhaps even professional police force (if they can get donations for that) will eventually just duplicate the problems of the silos. You end up with a bureaucracy and a system of rules, and then it becomes a question of who makes the rules. Even if you started out with the intention of reducing harassment, or whatever, before you know it you've got the same old familiar problems.
The people who want to use blocks as a political tactic to pressure this or that admin are just trying to create a status hierarchy with themselves at the top of a chain of command. It's a familiar game.
The people who want to use blocks as a political tactic to pressure this or that admin are just trying to create a status hierarchy with themselves at the top of a chain of command. It's a familiar game.
@bob @fallerOfFalls @HerraBRE I see the #PlatformCoop model as super applicable to the "who makes the rules?" question. Admins serving the will of the users, not ruling them - though there is still much exploration to be done around how to best govern a #democratic #instance at scale: http://www.shareable.net/blog/6-ideas-on-how-millions-of-users-can-own-and-govern-twitter