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.
User profiles could be a little bit more consistent and cleaner and allow for better interlinking and descriptions. I currently have my main profile at mastodon and I just link my other profiles there, but whether linking back there works from those profiles is anyone’s guess.
It’s a bit of a toss-up what profile text even supports on any particular service, sometimes it’s even dependant on what the client decides to do. Some allow Mastodon-style custom fields, some don’t. Some allow you to (e.g.) put links to your other profiles, some just render whatever you put there as a text - except, say, on some mobile client for some reason, where it decides to link mastodon-style user names. Some services are ridiculously minimalist (looking at you, Pixelfed - I know the main focus is on the user galleries, but oh no, how dare I want to learn anything about the people who take the photos).
Also you see things like people putting long alt-texts of their profile pics and banner pics in the descriptions - folks, wouldn’t it be cooler if the software supported actual alt-text for those?