Olives @olives@qoto.org

@jdp23 https://www.engadget.com/2019-05-31-sex-lies-and-surveillance-fosta-privacy.html Thorn has an interesting background.

@KazuShuSora I exist on a different time / space than you. This instance is resyncing after a maintenance cycle, so this post has only appeared now, lol.

@jdp23 @aurynn Unfortunately (or perhaps, fortunately), our admin accidentally took the server down for a number of days for maintenance (it was scheduled for months and wasn't supposed to take this long), so we mostly missed this spam wave. I considered using an alt, but I figured, this is a good time for a rest from social media.

https://qoto.org/@olives/111972867545521993 I have a take about spam though. No particular opinion on open registration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ What the maintenance cycle feels like, lol.

@drahardja Apparently, they even want to ban all porn. It seems so.

@echo_pbreyer Big Tech is no ally of free expression. From erratically censoring sexual expression on app stores, old Twitter instituting a policy because someone with QAnon-like leanings lobbied them to do so, to Steam censoring some anime type games because a group of Christian fundamentalists called them mean names, and made misleading scientific claims. You really start to feel that they have no principles at all.

@jdp23 @ricmac @laurenshof When that country takes "action", they don't do what you think they ought to do.

They just go around harassing people doing photoshoots, talking about how porn is evil, over apply the law in ridiculous cases, and all while not being any more effective. It's probably best they continue to act constitutionally, than make a big mess.

I think that conflating art with abuse here is probably a mistake though. Probably best to focus on their moderative practices, if you reckon there is a problem with that.

@jdp23 @ricmac @laurenshof That is the perk of a fan run instance. No out of touch bullshit.

That is also not really true for the U.S. In Free Speech Coalition v Ashcroft, prohibitions were ruled unconstitutional. I've said this before.

Also, what is a country practically to do? Shut down every site which doesn't take things down immediately? The government is a blunt instrument and isn't going to help you here.

The biggest problem, I think, is that they seem to talk to precisely no one, not even free expression oriented people, and so, they're out of touch.

@freemo There is someone who posts something like twenty posts connected together into a thread.

@andypiper I could see it being hard to investigate any random allegation about a guild, but they don't seem to be doing so, even after it's run havoc through the fediverse.

@trinsec @freemo Sometimes, someone can't be bothered to follow a link (despite it providing important context), so that is one reason why I use it.

@freemo At 3am. *flashing red light and loud beep* Wake up! Wake up! Hurry! The server is down!