Well, I got my first white supremacist reply from the fediverse after posting an article about Elon from Flipboard.
I reported and blocked the account. I also looked at the instance admin's account and it's clear he's also a white supremacist. So that instance will be blocked on flipboard.com and flipboard.social as well as shared with other instance admins as a problematic instance for them to take action if they also deem appropriate. Took all of 2 minutes to help make the fediverse a bit better for everyone.
And the best thing is that anyone in the fediverse can do this too. Decentralized moderation FTW.
@mike It also shows a weakness of the fediverse. It's a great 'cancel machine' if there are no rules for this. It can take just 2 minutes to cancel a group of people unjustified.
@avlap2 @mike @chris I, as a user, don't want to have to wade through every nazi, paedophile, racist, arsehole account to block it. There are probably thousands. I don't want to deal with them. I don't want to see them at all. I made a choice to be on a server where the mods block the worst ones for me, and for everyone on the server.
If you want to deal with all the blocking yourself, you can choose a server that doesn't do that. This is one of the benefits of federation.
@avlap2@mastodon.nl @mike@flipboard.social @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
They can setup their own server or use BlueSky if they want. Instance admin have not assured that users would have that "maximized freedom".