Olives @olives@qoto.org

@thenexusofprivacy We have (optional) local only posts here. I think Misskey also has it. Dunno about vanilla Mastodon though. From what I recall, Rochko is usually a bit fussy about what he adds.

Local only posts might also be useful in part of the porn federation (i.e. some of the 3D content).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
Following KISS, a small list does seem like a more elegant (and probably better) solution than a blacklist, for that particular use case. Probably depends on the execution.

Curiously, blahaj (don't know a whole lot about them tbh) appears to be an Australian instance (which can be a fairly puritanical country).

The puritanism comes from a typical source. The previous Prime Minister is said to have been friends with some guy who believes in QAnon, and he even made a speech about rituals in schools in the Parliament.

The PM was right wing, tended to be very authoritarian, and seemed very paranoid (he even secretly appointed himself to ministerial posts without the Ministers already in those posts knowing). He also believed he was chosen by God to lead the country.

The government would then take opinions from these, rather suspicious people, who seemed either conspiratorial / QAnon-like (one even harassed sexologists who had views they didn't like), or someone who literally spoke of wanting to ban all porn, and whose feed was filled with American Christian fundamentalists with similar views.

Crucially, they didn't really seem to know what they were talking about, and leaned on that dehumanizing type language.

The government then presented their views as if they were "neutral" or relevant. They appear to have made quite a mess of the public discourse there (or it was a bit ago). In 2021, a senior government official even got caught making an appearance on NCOSE's podcast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_on_Sexual_Exploitation) which is known to be a rebranded group of American Christian fundamentalists, all while ignoring censorship / privacy concerns.

Well, that is probably useful to keep in mind, otherwise might encounter something without understanding any of it. On the upside, the PM lost the last election.

@alecmuffett It seems then that they said "Yes, it absolutely does", then quibbled about the definition of "age verification", and said, "Therefore, it does not". Then, they wonder why people think they're political stooges, when they seem to be trying to split hairs to come to a particular conclusion. They're also wrong. You could easily see arguments being made in court that "Company X isn't doing a good enough job." You don't even need to be a legal scholar to see that.

Even the way they do things doesn't seem that effective, they seem to hyper-focus on trying to debunk specific claims, rather than trying to debunk, say, QAnon as a cultural phenomena...

@SarahOestreich That sounds like a recipe for discrimination, and it probably hides it behind a black box that is harder to understand.

@timbray @inventor @taylorlorenz It's hard to really capture and describe her, if I had to though, I'd say that she is QAnon for all the other things.

She is a dangerous one, not least because of the "they're coming to get you!" type mentality going on there.

@itwasntme223 I'm fairly sure that the "Nazis" are largely right wing leaning trolls who do that to be provocative.

It is kind of ironic, because on a few occasions, they seem like the sort of people the Nazis would have taken away to a concentration camp somewhere (obviously not good but... should have read "first they came for....").

That said, there seems to be a bit of an obsession with them. Sometimes, chasing shadows. There is also a certain amount of admin toxicity and almost toxic narcissistic type behavior there.

@Lobster That's edible...?