• stankmut@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think a whitelist is worse. While it gives them more control, it also essentially shuts out smaller instances and can lead to the existing instances becoming entrenched and hard to replace. I’m also not sure if would be a good move ‘politically’ for the admins. People are going to treat whatever is whitelisted as being endorsed by them.

    • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      The main advantage that I see is that they will almost certainly fall out of favor with the majority of the larger threadiverse community. They cannot continue to operate all of the largest communities with a mod team of 4 but seemingly have no plans to change it. They need to be ok with changing their stated relation to the larger threadiverse or they will be doing real damage to the larger community.