🐇, MSc

there are a million reasons to block someone that have nothing to do with them being a bad person but often blocking is conflated with a moral action and it simply does not have to be. you can block someone because they post daily photos of their ugly cat, make sourdough bread, or insist on using the letter eth. I recommend trying it

I earnestly think we need more shareable blocklists that aren’t trying to hide under the veneer of moral justification. You’d go like “yeah I personally figure Rabbit has basically good sense, I’ll install their ‘freaks (derogatory)’ blocklist, that’ll probably be a net good for my experience” and then install a couple more blocklists you think are sensible and then, in addition to having a baseline blocklist of racists, transphobes etc, you’d also get to ignore all types of people who are just irritating and bothersome

@mmeier @frederic To be honest, in my anecdotal experience, these instructions are, in turn, typically LLM-generated themselves. Which is a whole other bag of worms.

@Eryel@chaosfem.tw @0xDokki@lgbtqia.space @16af93@wetdry.world 🤔 “branch merged to main” 🥰 “headcanon confirmed”

@so_treu !! so much to say about this but I do think you’ve hit the nail on the head, these people DON’T want to address actual antitransmasculinity or its problems and lived experiences and actively want to derail the conversation into whatever nitpick or terminology criticism they think they can win instead

btw with the way my health insurance works out it would be like $160 monthly for gel now, as opposed to injection + supplies for… basically pocket change 🫠

@sous_mon_masque@eldritch.cafe @admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com my premise is explicitly more individual people choosing their own webs of blocks that have nothing to do with moral/badlist reasons rather than server admins blocking explicitly bad actors, so it’s a different problem. I feel that the old tierlists (tier 0 blocklist, etc) actually approach what I was (personally) getting at a little more but if we’re talking about admin webs of trust I think having a framework where people aren’t relying on one or two badlists but can slowly build interconnections is more what I was talking about—more tools are always good

@JoscelynTransient let they among us who has not done this throw the first stone :opossum_yell:

@JoscelynTransient I would never have put DC in the South—am I totally off base here lol