How can decentralized social systems like #mastodon handle political / social attacks?

How does the #fediverse handle new instances that in some sense conflict with the values of existing instances?

I imagine lots of people are arguing about this, but I'm not seeing the debates. Are they in private for strategic reasons, or am I just looking in the wrong places?

Is there a way that people (like me) trying to develop future decentralized systems can learn from current struggles?

Enter discipleship

@sandro Currently the blocking system seems to be holding up. People send reports of anything suspicious to the admin and instance blocks can happen from there.

Sometimes blocks are controversial, but any controversy blows over after a few days.

Political attacks are more of a problem on smaller or self-hosted instances where the curation effort isn't pooled. With fewer sentries on watch spotting political attacks becomes harder.

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