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1. advisedwang · 1790624810 · focus · HN ↗

   > No channel modes and no channel operators, which is a decision rather than a gap: a global channel is owned by nobody, so there is nobody to be an operator of it. Blocking is per person and per instance instead

   That's completely unworkable. Lets say I create #some_minority, and people from many different servers join. Some shithead comes and starts screaming slurs at us. Now the admin for every server must block that person. Multiply that by every channel, and every admin is responsible for moderating the entire ecosystem. The only way they can do this is with shared blocklists, which have been a nightmare on mastodon.

   1. conorcleary · 1790627393 · focus · HN ↗

      [seemingly negative thing] which is a decision (after hindsight), rather than a gap [scope creep]

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