I'm giving another server (mstdn.social) a try at the moment, due to qoto being blocked by some of my friend's servers. So far there are some things I like better there (it is not blocked by some of the more safe-space-oriented servers, it is a bit prettier and has some good discovery enablement) and some I don't (no markdown options, a much smaller character limit, generic community). I'm undecided at the moment, but I might migrate in the near future.
@obi Yeah, the dispute is around qoto's completely open policy. I'm glad that Mastodon gives the flexibility to implement numerous policies thus allowing a variety of spaces deliberately embrace different standards that serve their users. This also leads to a very explicit tension between safety and freedom. Complete openness to white nationalist, spam, and pornographic servers is seen as a problem by some other server admins, so they block qoto.
@johnnylogic I know qoto is nearly complete in openness, but I do think @freemo blocks like 3 servers, last I looked. The openness is why I originally came here, and I stayed for the extra features. I don't think any other instance can match his features.
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@obi
we on;y silence a few instances, we dont block any
@freemo ahhhh. Silence. Didn't know that was a thing.
@obi @johnnylogic I just noticed democracy.town blocks qoto.org, they seem to have a strange idea about this instance:
"False, dangerous medical conspiracy theories, racism, homophobic, transphobia. "
I sent a polite email to the admin requesting it be removed. We'll see what happens.
@ambihelical @johnnylogic That kind of action is DANGEROUS to their instance's name lol
@johnnylogic Good God! qoto is being blocked?
@johnnylogic I didn't realize anyone blocked qoto. This place is pretty mild, surprising that it would be blocked. I guess speech focused heavily on STEM is scary lol