I don’t use the block feature, but I think the friction of manually having to apply it each time helps to reserve it for special cases, like harassment.

I disagree that this is a better experience for the user. I think it’s perverse and unhealthy and will only serve to isolate the user and reinforce them into error in situations where they are incorrect or antisocial.

I think you’ve missed how blocks work on the fedi. They don’t silence the blockee, just hide them from the blockeur.

What then, is the response to content that deserves hostility? Misinformation, propaganda, incivility, posting videos without a text synopsis?

You may want to edit your post body to include information you clarify later in comments, namely:

You don’t want to block users permanently, which is why the current block feature is unsuitable.

You don’t want to block users universally, that is, if someone downvotes you in one thread you still want to see their content in others.

You only want to stop seeing comment replies in a single thread (or subthread?) from users who have previously downvoted you in that thread.

Do I have that right? That wouldn’t be so bad, I think, though beats me how you’d implement it.

I too get irritated when users misuse the vote buttons, but to my mind the ranked-thread system doesn’t work without them. And in the end, they’re just numbers: No amount of votes has every made me delete an unpopular comment, either of my own or as a moderator.

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soooo… relevant username?

Ugh, what a load of drivel. Article takes a lot of words to say only two things, and one of them is wrong. Combine that with the synecodochistic fallacy of conflating the fediverse as a whole with mastodon specifically, and it’s just a waste of time.

So, I’ll save you the read and summarize the author’s two observations:

• Bluesky was designed to be resilient, but their centralization onto a primary server made them succeptible to DDoS attack anyway.

• ActivityPub makes no mention of servers but the supermajority of Mastodon was unaffected by a DDoS attack on the biggest server — the author acts like this is a happy accident, an “emergent property”, rather than a core part of the fediverse ethos.

Article does not relate to the title in any way.

And can I say how much it really pisses me off that they got a grant to write this waste of time?

Saw Project Hail Mary in the local indieplex. Very enjoyable. Very funny, but then it was Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, so that’s to be expected.

I don’t walk in socks anywhere, so it always feels weird to do. At home, I’m barefoot three seasons of the year and wear socks with house shoes during the coldest parts of winter.

I automatically downvote anyone complaining about downvotes. I’m not going to change. Either stand your ground and accept your downvotes with dignity or introspect and see if you can improve your interactions.

I use a bullet journal, the original Rider Carrol method: No advance planning, just dump your brain into ink and paper, organize what’s there, index what’s important so you can find it later, eliminate unfulfilled tasks that aren’t as important, move important tasks to today’s list.

It’s not perfect but it’s very resilient and works well with my brain. And if I don’t use it your a day or a month or a year it still works fine when I come back, it doesn’t require consistency.