e(Ag)le on Nostr: Every time this blocklist shit comes up, I feel like I have to reiterate myself: ...
Every time this blocklist shit comes up, I feel like I have to reiterate myself: blocklists are trusting someone who isn't you to control who and what you see online. Whether that's blocklists, the algorithm, or instance defederation doing that, it's not only likely to catch decent people in its dragnet, but it has a long history of doing exactly that.
A lot of folks with heavy hands on blocklists hide behind the platitude of "protecting people from hate", but you're operating under the flawed assumption that such lists are good at doing that, that they only do that, and that their definition of "hate" is exactly your own.
I'm speaking for myself here, but I didn't go through all the work of lifting myself out of centralized silos and onto decentralized platforms just to hand my social autonomy over to unaccountable, unassailable lists of people I shouldn't be able to see. I'll decide that for myself.
A lot of folks with heavy hands on blocklists hide behind the platitude of "protecting people from hate", but you're operating under the flawed assumption that such lists are good at doing that, that they only do that, and that their definition of "hate" is exactly your own.
I'm speaking for myself here, but I didn't go through all the work of lifting myself out of centralized silos and onto decentralized platforms just to hand my social autonomy over to unaccountable, unassailable lists of people I shouldn't be able to see. I'll decide that for myself.