@wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing @XanIndigo @f0x

Qoto has also confirmed to me that they do not ban users of other instances for any reason.

Their rules on things like racism only applies to local Qoto users.

The admin wasn't even confident that he would ban child porn unless his community voted to do so.

@jeffalyanak

To be clear i stated as a democracy any rules need to be voted on. I made it clear what my vite would be a d woukd exoect the other mods to agree. We woukd almost certainly ban child porn.

You are correct we do not susoend individual remote users and its for the same reason we dont ban servers.

@wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing @XanIndigo @f0x

@jeffalyanak

By the way if you had asked my permissio to reproduce our private dms i would have happily said yes. No need to be all sbady about it, i dont hide our rules.

@wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing @XanIndigo @f0x

@jeffalyanak

And to be clear it isnt the community that votes. It is me and 2 other mods. The community votes for its mods though loosly.

Basically we discuss as a group of three any new rules and decide.

@wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing @XanIndigo @f0x

@freemo @jeffalyanak @XanIndigo @f0x reckon the three of you would have to think hard about whether child pornography meets the standards of consitutionally-protected free speech?

@wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing

Nope, no hard thinking needed, my vote woukd be easy, i suspect so woukd the others. We just never faced the issue before.

Also the constitution has nothibg to do with this.

@jeffalyanak @XanIndigo @f0x

@freemo @jeffalyanak @XanIndigo @f0x
interesting. essentialist free speech rather than constitutional free speech?

@wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing

We basically use freespeech to meann "You cann talk about things without being scared you will get in trouble so long as your making a reasonable effort to be respectful and kind"

It is intended to be a counter to toxic environments where they constantly hear "dog whistles" that dont actually exist and ban you for things you never did but people assumed you would do anyway.

Basically, unless you truely and obviously are a piece of shit you will be welcome... Inn some ways it might be better to just say "non-toxic" but that doesnt really work as well.

@jeffalyanak @XanIndigo @f0x

@freemo @jeffalyanak @XanIndigo @f0x a noble and admirable sentiment. In practice, though, i've observed that the criteria qualifying one as a true and obvious piece of shit are entirely subjective. if it weren't this discussion would not be occurring.

@wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing

There is no doubt it is a subjective process. I dont claim to have an objective solution and its one reason there is some room for interpritationn. In the end the only way to know where we stannd is tto see our timeline and moderation practices and judge for yourself ifg it is good or bad.

@jeffalyanak @XanIndigo @f0x