I think when it comes to blocking people, I can see some improvement there. I’m all about the idea of not adding fuel to the fire in the form of pointless online arguments and conflicts.

I see so many online platforms just fucking fail at the ways they try approaching that issue. Most places would let you block a user but they can still see everything that the blocked user has said. Like that opens the doors to exploiting and archiving. It is one thing if you’re logged out and can see things site-wide than it is still being logged in and seeing what was said.

When I block someone, I want to be a ghost to them. I want them to not see anything I’ve said and I wouldn’t want to see anything they’ve said either. I don’t want to block them and find out they engage me on an alt just with things to continue the bullshit with.

I think the Fediverse has corrected that aspect that, when you log off, you can’t see shit. So it prevents that. Though that’s practiced from the instance I’m on for all I know.

However, when logged in and still blocking people, they can still see what was said by those who blocked them.

Furthermore and this is a bit of a controversial part, is that, I think moderation logs to be open is a bad idea. Again, it is to me, just one more thing to add to the fuel of a fire that isn’t being let to wind down. Because people often jab and joust at others with shit like “LOOK WHUT U DID IN THUH MODERATION LOG!” and that just does nothing but escalate.

I think with some of these kinds of corrections, would promote the idea of a healthier ecosystem for the community.

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    Say mods prohibit links to piracy sites but allow discussion, the mods can moderate the content.

    But that front end problem is so typical… :p

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      Well there are also topics, which are instance admin controlled.

      And Piefed moderators can implement URL blocking that could include piracy site sources that would block the entire instance from seeing content from pirate sites.

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          6 hours ago

          Well okay, but if these functions didn’t exist at all - they would only begin to exist on one particular piece of software on the Fediverse at some point initially. As has happened here.