Me: Oh no! This person I don't know and never interacted with blocks me!
: So?
Me: It's upsetting! Why would they do that?!
: You didn't know they existed 10 seconds ago.
Me: But I do now and they mistakenly think they shouldn't hear from me!
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Me:
: Look a squirrel!
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Actually, I think I'm going to *not* add blocking capabilities to what I'm building. There are already a lot of things that do that, and mutes with stochastic timeouts provides for forgiveness in a network healing way... ...I think.
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Replying to @generativist
It's like incarceration vs habilitation. Blocking doesn't address the feedback loops that bring about certain undesired behaviours or attitudes. It also is often instrumentalized as a symbol or a socially / morally loaded signal. Then again, there are often no alternatives.
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I think blocking should be understood as an instrument, and we should understand the plurality of ways it is so: communicative, social, experiential/homeostatic. Is one exerting power over others? Claiming autonomy over how the platform affects me? Signalling who is morally bad?
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Not claiming this is accurate or exhaustive, but I do think it is this direction that must be clarified before alternatives can be systematically be explored and tested, especially with regards to how the substitution is reflected in the social/info dynamics and experience.
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Yea. I started curating lit on this today. I'm hoping to run into an ontology of CMC/SNS abuse and a census of corrective measures. https://github.com/jbn/reflock/wiki …
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Computer-mediated communication and social networking site. (Sorry, was literally just reading one of the papers and didn't shift out of jargon mode.)
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Replying to @generativist
Let me know if you find such an ontology and set of corrective measures! Have you tried social network science hivemind yet? (Not that I know the crowd tho)
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Replying to @neuropoetic
Not yet only because I want to catch up on a lot of reading first. (E.g. I had theoretical reasons why blocklists are bad; now I'm seeing lots of people explicitly writing about them.)
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