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The trade-off is that you have sovereignty over your own experience and all the benefits that come with that, but everyone else does too. You have to deal with people you think are dangerous by fighting them honestly without resorting to coercion. You have to fight the pedophiles and the rapists and the thieves and the racists and the sexists and the gays and the straights and any other class of people honestly. That means that things you think are abhorrent will happen unless you make an effort or support an effort to stop them.

[ARCHIVED] Jay 2y ago

I just heard the news of Twitter potentially removing blocks.

On a coercive platform like Twitter, where they have complete control of users, their content, and their interactions, the removal of a user-controlled coercive feature is a huge blow to the user. The platform and the parties that control it have more control and the user has less. That's definitely a huge problem and its going to have real consequences because it's a removal of previously held power.

The situation is very different on nostr, where the introduction of blocks would be an overreach of power by the user. We're over here because we know how the above scenario ends.

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[ARCHIVED] Jay 2y ago

Heck, Jason Lowery demonstrated the coercive nature of blocks by exploiting people's social networks with them to cause outrage.

There are worst case scenarios that exist with blocks and worse case scenarios that exist without them. You don't have a choice on Twitter which path is taken. Only how you'll deal with it.