"Blocklists"

22 Apr, 2018

There just really can't be any idea worse than blocklists.

As a Mastodon instance administrator, I've seen the growth and popularization of Mastodon as a decentralized social media, especially after the recent case of data leakage of Facebook. This can't be a better phenomenon as to us, since we have always hoped that people will one day wake up from the dream that large entities, such as governments and companies, would ever protect their freedom and / or privacy. However, while the amount of users and administrators of Mastodon increases, unexpected things also happen, due to the fact that some of the users just followed others to join Mastodon without knowing what they are actually doing. One of these is the emergence of Mastodon blocklists.