@SallyStrange And when the total amount of compute dedicated to rats races is low enough, a single actor can swoop in and perform a 51% attack.

If you close your eyes and yell loud enough to not hear anything, crypto is truly amazing.

@bastardsheep @_elena And immediate self-correction, it doesn’t violate requirement, but a recommendation:

> SHOULD NOT - This phrase, or the phrase "NOT RECOMMENDED" mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances when the particular behavior is acceptable or even useful, but the full implications should be understood and the case carefully weighed before implementing any behavior described with this label.

@bastardsheep @_elena Block by its nature cannot be private. It has an easily testable outcome.

Frankly, for a dedicated individual, block on mastodon is no different from mute with a ritual. From what I can find (without checking code), mastodon’s implementation ignores ActivityPub recommendation on not sharing block activities.

The difference here is in magnitude. Mastodon doesn’t share the list contents with the whole wild world. Only with the one you really don’t care to share it with.