Yeah, I...think I'm gonna just unfollow the #
fediblock tag. It's really gone downhill, and lately it's all just:
- Israel apologists whining about "antisemites" because they can't tell the difference between "Israel" and "Jews" or otherwise just want to push for support for Israel without outright saying so
- Weird very specific callouts of single people for often questionable abuse
- The above, except also pointing out specific victims, ironically painting a target on those victims for a whole lot more actual abuse
- Strange drama about itself and some tag called TheBadSpace that I have no idea what the hell they're talking about and, re: the above, don't really care.
Since starting my Hubzilla, there's yet to be a single time where I've been like, "oh, hey, that is indeed a shitty instance that should be defederated from, thank you fediblock." It's all just
this, and that really sucks. You can't be tolerant of people abusing important tags like this, or this is what happens, and now, in my opinion, from what I've seen of it over the last few months, the tag is useless.
Is there another tag to follow that actually does what this was supposed to do, and help keep objectively bad actor instances at bay? And if there isn't, would a forum on Lemmy or HZ be more useful for this? That would allow for a little accountability to prevent it from just being a way by which to bully people, spread agendas, or paint targets, and also allow for better searchability and engagement.
