It’s not ‘inconvenience at best’. The vast majority of people won’t use a VPN, so it will be a loss of revenue. Even if you are willing to pay for a VPN (or daft enough to use a free one), it’s an inconvenience as using a VPN can have side effects, such as other things getting blocked unexpectedly, or cause websites to redirect you to the local version in the country of your VPN server.

There is more to AI than LLMs.

That’s not entirely true. University assignments are scanned for signs of LLM use, and even with several thousand words per assignment, a not insignificant proportion comes back with an ‘undecided’ verdict.

The further get down this thread, the more you sound like a person I don’t want to deal with. And looking at the downvotes, I’m not the only one.

If you want people blocking you, perhaps followed by communities and instances blocking you as well, carry on.

Tell your friend to search for winterbreak

There is no way these things could spread poison instead of pollen is there?

There is no such thing as ‘free speech friendly’. Free speech is not absolute, and is defined / restricted differently across countries. So different instances will have to comply with their different local laws.

Also: an instance allowing comments doesn’t mean there won’t be consequences. For example: you can criticise the Thai royal family all you want on a US based instance, but don’t ever show your face in Thailand after doing that if you value your freedom.

Glossing over the fact that DOJ can’t subpoena instances like world as they are outside the US (but, like world, may be subject to EU GDPR) having an account without PII if your IP address is all over the servers isn’t going to save you.

Yep!

Yes, i know i can host my own instance. But I don’t think that should be necessary. My ‘problem’ is that a single post is looking different on each of the instances I signed up to, and the community in question is not on any of those instances. That is confusing me. I get that any instance can block other instances, or specific communities on other instances, and that’s a good thing. But selective federation at the level of posts or comments is an extra complication in the user experience i wasn’t aware of. I thought a post, with all its comments, would either show up in its entirety or not at all. That is clearly not the case.

Shame that isn’t on ios

Thank you for checking. That is weird. Your screen shot is exactly what I would expect / like to see when a user is blocked and has their comments removed. Neither voyager nor the web interface for world shows that. What app are you using?

It is not a voyager issue. Viewing the Post on world in the web browser also only shows 3 out of 20 comments

Thanks for the explanations. So a single post can have different comments showing up on different instances. So when selecting an instance, not only do we need to consider what other instances they defederated from, we also need to consider their policies on banning users and removing comments. Great. And people wonder why the average person isn’t embracing the fediverse.

Re photo: posted using voyager on mobile, so maybe that is the issue.

Re delays: the original post isn’t on world, it’s on another instance. I did comment from world and that whole comment tree disappeared from world but not from the original instance. So it does not seem to be a delay in federation from the original instance to world.

And correct me if i am wrong, but banning a user just stops them from posting, but i thought it did not delete their post history without additional mod action - which i cant see in the modlog

Does it also trap search engine crawlers? That would be a problem

That is probably true for all instances

The only thing that can make Trump look good is his obituary