We can see it on Hubzilla! Looks great!

Mastodon has a particular culture, and many Mastodon instances are heavy handed at blocking entire instances, which gives the impression to users that it is disconnected silos. But other platforms that use ActivityPub don't necessarily share the same culture, usually because the users and admins have more moderation controls available to them on other platforms, whereas Mastodon only has a "block" function. The old adage applies. If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Whereas Hubzilla with its Zot protocol, Streams with its Nomad protocol, and Bluesky with its AT protocol all attempt to give users more control over their connections and feeds.

Admins don't need to be heavy handed about blocking entire instances over the behavior of a minority of their users if users have full control of what they see and don't see. (Unless the server hosts illegal content, of course. Then you block the entire server.)

So I don't think the culture of blocking on Mastodon will carry over to platforms like Hubzilla, Streams, or Bluesky simply because they have better moderation and filtering tools.

Eventually, we might have a multi-protocol fediverse. There are some platforms, like Hubzilla, that can support multiple protocols. It already supports Zot and ActivityPub and *Diaspora. Why not AT Protocol too? And a bridge can be built between ActivityPub and AT Protocol.

Looks good.