https://www.pawlicker.com/essays/instancequestion.html
@PhenomX6 I find it hard to believe that instance blocking wasn't a thing before Mastodon because instance blocking does make sense in rare circumstances, like if the instance is just used for mass spamming or hosting CP. But I guess in those cases you could also just block them on a network/firewall level. Though I think the problem was that instance blocking was the most advertised feature on Mastodon and later became known as "Twitter without the Nazis". I wonder how the Fediverse would've turned out without Mastodon bringing in this culture.
Mastodon did make a big deal about instance blocking but knowing Twitter creatures I'm sure it'd be inevitable. Twitter creatures can only exist in a bubble with no mean words allowed and an entire infrastructure propping them up.
@PhenomX6 I was aware of the existence of GNU Social but I never used it because I wasn't (actively) using social media at the time. When I first heard of Mastodon, I assumed it was some GS fork or just some implementation of the protocol that was better than GS because a lot of FOSS people like Bryan Lunduke were shilling it. Though I wasn't aware of the whole Fediblock culture until I learned about the Gab drama in 2019.
I never would've thought that a decentralized social network would ever appeal to SJW far-leftists, but Mastodon proved me wrong.
