If you had to convince folks that the fediverse / activitypub isn’t decentralization and all the perils of the former, what stories/anecdotes/tech arguments work best?

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Think it was @lefteris.eth who got blocked out of a server for being in crypto

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exactly – if servers can block users, it's not solving the actual user problem (even if servers/apps are not able to block other servers)

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i guess my point is you *need* the ability to block users or any form of moderation/spam defense will fail