Qoto drama
Some thoughts on the qoto.org situation:
1. Many of the attacks on qoto are deliberately or accidentally misinformed. A look at the public timeline (https://qoto.org/public) shows that we are not the cesspool of Nazism that some would portray us as. @freemo is bringing screenshot receipts in his defense; I haven't seen them from attackers.
2. I have no idea how to deescalate this.
3. No matter how noble our intentions, their may come a point where we simply lose. It sounds like we've lost @Gargron and @FediThing@tech.lbt. Does anyone know @stux's opinion?
4. If the people I want to interact with are all on servers that have defederated with qoto, I will migrate.
5. I appreciate the value of hearing different points of view and the danger of being too quick to cancel someone based on a rumor. At the same time, there are toxic people and certain servers are full of them. Saying it's up to individual users to block things they don't want to see feels a bit privileged. Marginalized people may very reasonably just not want to run into constant microaggressions and expect their moderator to keep it out of their feeds. Trolls are *very* good at getting right up to the ban line and insisting, "I'm not touching you!"
Qoto drama
@peterdrake
I suspect that the larger servers are not going to actually block Qoto, as this seems to be mostly an issue with smaller more cliquish instances. Gargron himself is (misguidedly) trying not to rock the boat by upsetting these smaller instances' owners, much like a narcissist's family misguidedly tries not to upset the narcissist among them.
If push comes to shove, there's also always the alternative of creating an account at another instance but using your original handle as your main. I've been doing this for years, with my QOTO handle being my main account and there also being 3 less used accounts that I keep around for various purposes.
