#banauthoritarians 😅

I used to believe this too, but fediverse has also the goal or building communities, which is different than nostr focus on individual freedom (people become atomized individuals) In a community some people won't mind having some of them having roles (specialization of role), and a role is the of a moderator. Of course it would be better to allow a fine grain control and a member of the community would be able of reading content from instances the Moderator didn't allow (this means accepting Moderation is sometimes optional)

I don't think it's just about young authoritarians. On the web, the major way to get new content is to search for it or click through to it, which means you are unlikely to see unwanted stuff. With social media, centralized or not, anyone can push content upon you. That's the point of social media. But the result is unwanted content on your screen.

True, except unlike the others websites don't answer back. (unless you have a comments section and they do block)

anyone can push content into you? no, you pull stuff from people you follow

There is no system - existent or future - that can prevent all people (with varying tastes and comfort levels) from ever seeing anything that is "unwanted" by each of them. Except for eyelids. But then you still have sound to worry about. If you think about this for even 1 minute it's a very obvious property of reality. Not just social media.

check your privilege buddy. the vulnerables need a way to silence the haters and trolls, otherwise they will have a bad time

Of course they do. My point was about the scope of what blocking means. They want to not see stuff - fine. But that can't include blocking other people from seeing their stuff. Twitter blocks were a lie- just log out and you see it all again. We can't impl blocks either (and neither can bluesky). Solutions include muting, private spaces, subscribing to censors to get those mutes before you see stuff, etc.