@TaxDan So far, I've only seen a couple of accounts, and they've been from harmless tech folks.
Purism is a company that is very popular with a certain brand of privacy focussed nerd. I have one of their laptops myself.
But yeah, there's a good chance we'll block them anyway because they aren't moderating their platform.
@ajroach42 @TaxDan As a user on the librem.one platform this hits kinda close to home.
What discussions have been had with @purism about moderation?
Originally, they intended to disable reporting features entirely at the software level, I believe there was enough of a push back against that to have them reconsider, but what I'm seeing coming out of their discord shows a contempt for the responsibilities of administration and moderation.
@ajroach42 @TaxDan A fair point to be wary of, but it seems premature to blacklist based on fear of the future. That's definitely not just.
As to point #1 it seems, to me, to be an extremely toxic opinion to hold that corporate instances are bad.
@purism has done a great service for both privacy and free software movements by pushing an agenda on privacy and free software.
Do they make more money if more people like privacy and freedom? definitely. Does that make them immoral?
It sounds like we're going to disagree on point one, which is probably down to a fundamental disagreement over the purpose and use of social networking. That's not a fight I'm interested in having, and I'll concede that purism might be a special case.
Point two is the larger point. The fact that the people managing the instance your using have repeatedly stated that they will not be moderating the instance is cause for concern.
@ajroach42 @TaxDan @purism And I'd understand blocking it if something did happen.
But your original post argued #1 as if that's a reason to block it, which is why I provided my view on it.
@rune @TaxDan
Right. I don't think that corporations should be running instances on the fediverse, because it will encourage a situation similar to email and gmail.
You seem to disagree here. That's fine, it's a difference of opinions. The fact that it's a corporate instance was not enough for me to block it, as evidenced by the fact that we can have this conversation.
The moderation issue is the larger concern, and as of yet I have seen no evidence that this issue will be resolved.