A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

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    1 year ago

    Yeah but it also means they can fester and rot in their little holes. You dont have to worry about an administration that is obsessed with free speech like its a good thing letting a colony like exploding heads in if you join the correct instance

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      1 year ago

      The problem with letting things fester is that they tend to grow and get worse while they’re out of sight/out of mind, until they eventually burst out and spread toxicity everywhere.

      One of the benefits of free speech is that the nasty stuff gets exposed. When it’s exposed then you at least know where it is. The only problem is if the nasty stuff doesn’t get labeled as such so it can be dealt with, and instead is treated as if it were normal and allowed to continue spreading (e.g. police turning a blind eye to far-right gun nuts intimidating voters).

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        Burst out where? Into another instance that can get defederated? Into a million instances? Great. Spread that userbase as thin as possible. Defederate the most annoying ones.

        The nasty stuff you are talking about is straight from Fox news. That’s a failure of American broadcasting standards, that you have an “entertainment” channel holding itself up as legitimate news.

        If Fox was disallowed from calling itself news years ago, you would not have these problems. If Fox was put into subscriber only TV channels, you would not have this problem.

        Fox was opt-out for viewers. Make it opt-in. Make hateful instances opt -in for the users.