Whoever this @r000t person is, he's a perfect example of how white folks perform being a proponent of safety and choice, but will always leave a door open for hateful bigots to perpetuate their rage.

And like I've been saying all day, you can't have it both ways.

You can't say you're an advocate for safety and then turn around and get validation from the most notorious bigots on the web.

You're just a fraud that is too much of a coward to be what you are.

And yes, we see you.

@Are0h @r000t I think we all know who the real bigot is. Better hurry back to your safe space before you accidentally hear another viewpoint.

@terryenglish @r000t so I was wondering why I didn’t see any replies, opened the page in safari. That instance is just so cringy, i muted it on my account two days after joining the verse. I hope it’s an elaborate troll.

@fireglow
That was my guess.

I genuinely feel bad, because I want Mastodon to succeed *in spite of assholes*

I just think we're gonna have a much easier time getting to "1 negative interaction before blocking" than "negative interactions never ever happen"

My software solution idea, which should also help small instance owners like him, is something similar to MCBans' old system. More on this later.

@terryenglish

@r000t @terryenglish oh I have no issues with blocking idiocy on my personal account. In moderation. In a previous toot I spoke about the dangers of creating filter-bubbles, or echo chambers.
What I take offense with is instance admins doing that, thus curtailing the freedom of their users, and THEN go around expecting a pat on the back for that kind of behavior.
I'm certainly opposed to that.

Now, I think it's perfectly fine for users to create their filter-bubble for themselves if they want to/need to.
But that "my opinion is the only valid one, for everybody" mindset is.. well, blatant idiocy.

I'll be looking forward to your post.

@fireglow
Well and the dude calls me racist and all the rest while saying "white people this" and "white people that" and more than anything I'm confused, assuming I'd missed something.

If it really was "if user.bigot { dont_federate};" I'd be all for it, but the gotcha is always the corner cases, and that'd require some serious advances in AI

The whole storm started when I slowly tried to bring dude to that conclusion
@terryenglish