@ern@mstdn.social I felt the same way when I first joined but I’ve come to appreciate a more unfiltered view of things. I mute a lot of bots and block some people who post a lot of NSFW stuff, but I like that it’s my choice to do so. I actually think the big instances should be more upfront about the fact that they block or silence half or more of all ActivityPub users.
@zleap @stux
@b6hydra @ern @zleap I think we are 💪 If we block or silence an instance we announce this on the community plus it's all public data on https://mstdn.social/about/more#unavailable-content
The reason we filter some is quite simple😄 mstdn.social should be acessible for everyone no matter where you are. So for example I want to be able to browse my timeline while at work, or show the network to my parents. But if it's full of unmarked NSFW, nazi stuff etc I pass on that..
The community costs me load of money each month and it's worth it but on my terms❤️ That's the beauty of the fedi, people can always move to a server without the blocks right 
@stux
Just to clarify, it’s not that I think anyone is doing a bad job or being malicious. It would be much worse if you couldn’t run your server on your own terms. Servers here are generally more open about their policies than centralized operations will ever be too. Take joinmastodon.org, for example, though. (Which I realize isn’t your site). On their front page it says 4.4M users, but how many are silenced? If you click to the ToS you can see the domain list. That doesn’t really give you the full picture though. I just think we can always do better.
@ern@mstdn.social @zleap
@b6hydra @stux @ern@mstdn.social
When people come here and see posts such as this
People are going to take serious issues with Mastodon in general, just everyone as racist.
Granted there are different spellings,. meanings and contexts and usage of that word, however that won’t help us one bit.
This small post could be misconstrued as racist and misogyny
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Its a tricky word. Obviously when used with the intent to be insulting it is deplorable. But when the black community itself promoting and accepting the use of the word as a positive identifier used in a positive way in music and everyday conversation, then it simply isnt that straight forward. Ultimately for obvious reasons they, as a community, determine if we embrace or reject the word and what the correct context, if any may be. Generally most (thought not all) seem to find it a perfectly acceptable casual word to us when 1) ending in -a and 2) not used explicitly as a pejorative.
That said while I personally dont make use of the word, simply because I dont tend to adopt much slang in general, it is socially more or less acceptable given the context here.
@freemo @b6hydra @stux @ern@mstdn.social
Yeah, however not everyone is going to see it that way.
Also people will judge you if you even have that in your stream.
Japanese anime porn (referenced here) is also in abundance, and sexualising the female gender mostly I think too.
I appreciate this is a cultural thing but given what is going on with #MeTo and attempts t(in the UK) o make women feel safer, combined with the worrying cases of spiking by injecting drugs in the UK (one case is too many) This sort of thing may shock new users and leave them with bitter taste.
@zleap
Well, the Japanese porn is a huge cultural divide that won’t be reconciled anytime soon. A lot of the porn the comes out of the US/UK would be illegal there just like some of the anime is here. I don’t really have an answer for you on that. Racial epithets and referring to women as “females” isn’t a great look, I agree, but at this point is anyone unfamiliar with the fact that people are dicks on the internet?
@freemo @stux @ern@mstdn.social
@b6hydra @freemo @stux @ern@mstdn.social
We just need to try and explain what people are letting them selves in for which is a completely different cultural set up on here.