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break up blocklists and allow-lists into subsections
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@ -421,6 +421,18 @@ structurally insufficient to be the /foundation/ of our approach.
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-- Marc Stiegler, [[http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/ewalnut.html][E in a Walnut]]
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#+END_QUOTE
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Blocklists and allow-lists appear, at first glance, to be a good
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foundation for establishing trust or distrust on a social network.
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Unfortunately, both solutions as a foundation actually shake the
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structure of the system apart after long enough.
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This isn't to say we aren't sympathetic to the goals of block-lists
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and deny-lists, but that they don't work long term.
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In order to understand this, we need to look at the problem from
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several sides.
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**** The Nation-State'ification of the Fediverse
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Part of the major narrative of the federated social network at the
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moment is that running an instance is an excellent opportunity to host
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and support a community, maybe of people like you or people you like.
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@ -482,6 +494,8 @@ that instances should play /altogether/.
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While there is nothing wrong with blocking an instance or two, the
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network effect of having this be the foundation is re-centralization.
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**** Where do communities really live?
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Furthermore, it doesn't even reflect human behavior; few people
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belong to only one community.
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Alice may be a mathematics professor at work, a fanfiction author
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@ -503,6 +517,8 @@ social web: the instance is not the community level, because users
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may have many varying communities on different instances, and each
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of those instances may govern themselves very differently.
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**** Not only a social problem, but a security problem too
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So far the problems with "perimeter security" described above have
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been examples restricted to the social level.
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As it turns out, perimeter security has another problem when we start
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