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My impression is that there are some topics that have taken off into decent discussions (I've discussed the Assange and Applebaum situations a few times for example), but there are indeed key people missing, and also general "density".
I have hopes that the OStatus network will grow, and I think a key "killer feature" could be abuse handling - twitter is honestly really bad about this. If instance admins feel, or are seen as, responsible for the abuse, harassment and other similar things that goes on on their instances, then hopefully the abusive people will be confined to a number of instances that can be blocked entirely.
This can also tie into the "free speech" maximalism that some admins/moderators are using to absolve themselves from abusive use of their instances. With federated, open protocols, you can be picky without "censoring" - if the "censored" dispute your judgement they can just go to a different instance and still participate in the network.
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@hakui @clacke Well the thing is that you need a certain level of moderation to have useful discourse, and not everyone enjoys having shouting matches and bullying tactics. Abusive users will tend to be banned from reasonable instances, where the node admin acts with the ownership they have, and thus the abusive users will tend to congregate to low-quality, low-moderation instances. Shutting those off entirely seems to me a reasonable choice, for some if not most instance admins.
And blocking individual users is not good enough when you're getting flooded by abusive, harassing users (see all kinds of cases on e.g. Twitter). Blocking silently on keywords helps, but there are ways around that, which abusers tend to be well aware of.
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@jcaktiv did you know: in the Classic ui, when you search for a word or a hashtag there's a #subscribe button to #subscribe to that search.
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