I’m not super into Fediverse discourse as I just stick to posting communist stuff, but there’s been a lot of talk of how Eugen refuses to implement further moderation tools that people have been wanting (especially PoC & minorities) to cut back on harm. For instance, giving servers the ability to basically defederate with everyone as a default and only allow specific instances to create spaces people would want, the ability to post only to a local timeline instead of either public, to followers, or DMs.

It’s all based on that idea that because it’s a public social media network, it “ruins” the experience if people can make little bubbles. The logic isn’t sound as you can already do that but it’s just a hassle instead of just simply allowing it as options and making it safer for people as a default.

There’s also no mindset of specifically trying to block fascists and the right from using the platform from the start, unlike Lemmy (thanks having commie devs). So when Gab became a thing, Eugen blocked them from federating, but there was no further push to make it difficult for fascists to easily use the software or allow instances like that to propogate. So hateful instances do exist but it’s up to individual instances to block them, basically enabling hate and right-wing talking points.