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		goodpoint on Nov 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moderation is different from censorship Yes! It's surprising that federated networks don't do moderation / antispam using tagging/voting and user-managed filters.

reitanqild on Nov 3, 2022 [–]

Mastodon decided to go the guilt-by-assiciation route instead:

Instead of just leaving it to users or admins to block users or servers they didn’t want to deal with, a large subset decided to block for anyone who didn’t block certain other servers.

goodpoint on Nov 4, 2022 | [–]

Which still makes sense, a lot.

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