> [C]ommunity boundary #blocklists [have] incited conflict on the #Fediverse, with many users left cut off from their communities …. Using … #GroundedTheory, we interviewed 9 Fediverse users, including a mix of community boundary blocklist curators, server staff, and regular users, to determine key tensions between community moderation and mutual aid practices
2 May 2025, #openaccess: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3710919
Erika Melder, Ada Lerner, Michael Ann DeVito