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I'm not saying that "trans people who block exterminationists" is not a legitimate use case for such a feature.

Just that you can't engineer it so that only such use cases can be enabled by it, and most people using it will be "muh, stop advocating vaccines to me, wanna keep my blood pure" or equivalent types :| I probably have less faith in humanity than you do :)

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> and most people using it will be "muh, stop advocating vaccines to me, wanna keep my blood pure" or equivalent types

I don't think so, partly because it's not "those types" that seem to be building these tools which they would if it was a priority for them, and partly because those people already have effective barriers inside their own head. Sometimes it seems like they need the opposite view so they can get angry about it.

In other words, they can't be reached because of who they follow, not because of who they block.

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