Downfall to the fediverse: You know what your friends see when they look into this stuff? Oh, wow, they use that site that has the pedos on it.

It's a serious issue. Most people don't and won't understand the decentralized thing. When these come to light in the media, and stuff like this ALWAYS comes to light in the media, someone is gonna say at some point "Hey didn't pigeon suggest that site to me once?"

As a mod of a few big subs, that doesn't really work either. Lots of us ban those on sight because of those stupid t-shirt bots.

Just deleting the account keeps the comments there, though.

You gotta use one of those wipers to fully nuke your tracks. Otherwise you show as [Deleted] and the posts remain.

Oh, it blocks the genzedong reddit crowd (who are worse here because there are no admins to tell them to stop openly advocating genocide) and the alt-right skinhead types. They tend to come from a few specific instances. What's left is a blend of progressives and socialists and anarchists and moderates that can generally talk about things without treating you like you should be put to the firing squad for not loving Stalin or Hitler.

You'll come across it at some point and know immediately what I'm talking about.

Yeah. In the end I think it'll be beneficial, honestly, to put more control in the hands of the user. If you notice all of the problem people are coming from on place, blocking them all feels so counter-intuitive when you can just block the source. And every argument I hear against it is the same tired "free speech means you have to listen to me and give me a platform" thing you hear from just about everyone who has an opinion most people really don't wanna listen to.

And they take over every new social media site until people find a way to filter them out. That's why they fight so hard against said filters.

How much does this dude have to do before everyone sues the pants off of him? We should be past that stage months ago.

Respectfully dude, it's not everyone else's job to police content for you. Paywalls are everywhere, it's the internet.

I didn't until I found Beehaw. I'm enjoying it now.

I wish you could block servers personally, though. Like some of the stuff that's blocked here makes this place a lot better to be around. There's less hate and reactionary fear mongering. Everything is more chill.

Yeah, I'm a mod of retrogaming and a few few other subs in that network. Best group of users ever. 320k people in just the one sub and I think as a team we had to take down maybe 3-4 posts a day? Maybe? I banned 2-3 people in a month, that's absolutely unheard of in a sub that size. I think the worst argument I saw the whole time was a running "the playstation one was not called the PSX" "Yes it was" "NO IT WASN'T!" "HERE IS AN ARTICLE, YES IT WAS." thing that we had to specifically make a rule about. Odd little drama, but other than that? No fights at ALL. I'm talking a report maybe every few days for something being off topic if we didn't get to it quick enough.

The niche subs about fringe interests, even if they're popular ones, often bring out the very best people. And the patient/retro gamers are so very chill.