In-reply-to » @prologic It seems to me this distinction is pedantic and mostly at the server level. I have a mastodon account and I have no impression that I am being forced to read things I don't want to read. I follow the people I want to follow, I mute or block the people I don't ever want to see. It's almost exactly the same reading experience as I have on yarn--different people and content obviously, but very similar functionally speaking. I think there are other issues that are of more concern.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci What do you mean by “pedantic” exactly?

What would you, as an end user, do if someone stood up a yarn pod full of assholes who all collectively decided to twt at you all day every day?

Right now (without Activity Pub) I wouldn’t know. It wouldn’t hurt me, I don’t follow those “assholes”, I don’t have to. I don’t pull their feed(s).

However (which is the point ) if I have Activity Pub integrated and turned on, I have no choice now. Those same “assholes” can send me shit all day, every day, and there isn’t anything I can do about it. My options then become to administratively block them at the server or OS level. What if I don’t have administrative control?

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