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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 rules? enforced by whom? It's a choice. It's freedom.

Mike McCue

@chris @avlap2 also I don’t mean to minimize the “cancel machine” issue you mention. Finding the balance here is super important and not easy. I do think this is an area that needs more attention and norm setting.

@mike @chris Let users manage their own blocking as much as possible.

@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 @mike @chris

Some Fediverse nodes have no redeeming qualities, due to being operated by and for fascists, etc.

@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".