Qoto.org blocking, genocide mention
@jq @szczezuja @matt @FediThing I'm like 2 weeks into my Fediverse experience. As you can see from my profile picture, I'm a Black guy. I picked Qoto because I had to pick someplace to start, and I thought their policies were reasonable. I'm OK with handling my own block list, for now.
I haven't seen anything at all that's disturbing in the Qoto local feed. I'm still trying to evaluate whether I'm in the right place or not.
I'm not happy to hear that people aren't happy with Qoto's policies. But I'm personally not going to migrate elsewhere until I see something concretely that I disagree with.
But I'll just say, keep in mind that when you defederate an entire open instance, it has an impact on a bunch of people who have no idea what's going on.
I've got a lot of hope for the potential of the Fediverse, but if it's going to be on new users to learn all the backstory of every instance, I think it's going to make adoption by normal people much less likely.
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Qoto.org blocking, genocide mention
I'm glad to hear your rational response. I also want to say if you DO see anything you disagree with, please report it first. Bad-actors cant be handled if I dont know about it, and we DO handle bad actors when they come up.
I am working with a coalition of admins right now to bring a solution to the fediverse to address this very thing. A way to document accusations and ensure they have their due process and to allow for a "United Federation of Instances" that have some assurances they are good actors as a result of this.
