Tbh, coming from lemmygrad, I was a little shocked to see how many sex-related comments there were here when we federated. The Volcel Police do a good job, still, and I’ll happily scroll here alone or in company where I would do neither on X, Reddit, Insta, etc. Mine is just the perspective of someone who got used to a place that actually doesn’t have much talk about sex. For a place where that kind of thing does crop up, Hexbear gets the balance right.

The user in the screenshot doesn’t know what they’re talking about. It’s not the first time I’ve come across this weird shit, though. I encountered someone else (I assume it was someone else) who was decrying lemmygrad as a blight on humanity for daring to defederate or censor all nsfw instances and images. They soon started arguing that protecting kids from gore and porn wasn’t a valid reason for the censorship so I blocked them and moved on.

This relates to one of the worst features of internet-ready late stage imperialism, the expectation that porn, especially, should be permitted on every single platform, no matter the theme or audience. Wtf did alienation do to everyone? Why does that need to be mixed in to your sports coverage and political discussion?