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0 pointsKirinDave9y ago0 comments

> CW was a bolt-on feature that was developed without any consideration for other fediverse servers and how they communicate using shared protocols

Because how many years did they have to develop it and elected not to? Forking happens to meet demand.

> Now I see plenty of jerks, admins are sharing blocklists based on zero information and hiding the fact from their users,

Which instance. Name names.

> if you speak a non-english language you can be as offensive as you want to be

We'll block them pretty soon. Already userscripts to GT toots inline are circulating. Don't worry.

> and there is a massive Japanese Mastodon server that is flooding the network with child porn.

It is a tesatment to the Mastodon network that this was resolved in under 12 hours. Twitter has let CP accounts live for far longer.

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Torgo9y ago

Frame your needs however you want, if you sign up for a federated network you assume some responsibility to do things with consideration for interoperability and standards.

KirinDaveOP9y ago

Does not the network have are responsibility to evolve to meet the needs of its users?

I had read recently Mastodon quickly had more users on the federated network than the active population of every other individual codebase.

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