@achso@mastodon.social Gab is widely perceived so, Achso. They are a group of Right wingers, there's a lot of content many of us find insulting, racist or worse. White supremacist groups use the place as well.
I personally do not have any interest in their instance and its peripheral ones -- have visited their front doors, incognito, to look an see what posts show in their public feed. Disgusted, I decided to implement a personal ban, blocking their whole instance from my own personal account.
This power, which any Mastodon user has, is wonderful.
I have seen a recent statistics shot that shows they are very, very Insular -- 99% of all posts made there are addressed to users who are in there as well.
@achso@mastodon.social Sadly, having this policy of not blocking any instance unless there's problems, and they cannot be solved by dialogue with their admins, is what caused us to be lumped with Gab, and a number of instances which are less notorious; but some of which I have reticence to, due to their borderline content, which I find offensive personally (lolicon).
We discussed that, as a staff, and unless there's trouble the policy is to leave connections open here.
@design_RG
" you can not tell people what to believe".forgot who tell me this, the good instance is the instance that gives the choice to the user.
Not the one like [I did this because it’s good for you.]
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