• No server operator needs to federate with you.
  • No server operator needs to tolerate things they don’t want on their instance.
  • No user of an instance needs to personally curate their own extensive never ending blocklist of users and channels they don’t want to see.

Quit your pseudo-intellectual whining and choose what instance(s) work for you. If you think regularly interacting with shit content somehow helps you stay out of an echo chamber then go ahead and make a second account on those garbage instances full of hateful people. Then you can read both the decent servers and the trash ones and be the fedora wearing ackshually right fair and balanced uber nerd you always wanted to be.

Edit: The huge number of upvotes on this post compared to the low numbers on the whiney imposers’ posts is proof of exactly where this community places its priorities.

  • @SharkEatingBreakfastEnglish
    16•1 year ago

    I love my main “hub” instance. It chooses not to federate itself with a lot of the bigger instances, because those are basically the wild west where anything goes.

    My dumb mental health is pretty fragile (I’m mad about that), so it’s really bad for my mind to see front page content blatantly putting out bait, open hostility, shitty takes, or arguing about loli porn or whatever.

    I’m a person who likes my hobbies, animals, goofy memes, and good conversation. I’m glad I can choose to participate in one “safe” instance, and venture to another if I’m feeling the need to explore more content.

    I literally have the power to do both! And I’m happy for that choice.

    People shouldn’t be upset when the power is in their hands to do whatever they want.