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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by detaro on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:04PM (#15955495)
Does Mastodon roll out these bans coordinated across the federated instances?
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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by TheDong on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:09PM (#15955967)
The administrators of popular mastodon instances share "block lists" manually. That's the level of coordination.

Shared lists:

https://github.com/tootcafe/blocked-instances

https://github.com/MastodonBlocklist/blocklist

https://github.com/ticki/mastodon-blacklist

and others

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by vorotato on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:06PM (#15963716)
No, it's instance by instance. You will see some amount of cooperation, but it's not enforced by any means just a cultural norm created by the twitter refugees to mastodon. GnuSocial has a bit of a libertarian bent, Mastodon instances have a bit of a leftist bent, and of course there's the instances which are both, so it's not really a binary but rather a spectrum. Yes Libertarian and left surprisingly to many are not mutually exclusive.
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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by RunningDroid on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:54PM (#15955868)
The bans don't appear to be copied from one instance to another by the software, if that's what you're asking.

What the previous poster was likely referring to is the 5-10¹ instances that are banned by most other instances with the reason "allows controversial content" or "Free speech zone"².

¹: the number banned varies from instance to instance, but it tends to be the same ones.

²: this one was used by an "anarchist" instance that appears to have more rules than most other instances.

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