@Damon@mozilla.social I think you're making every single mistake here.
https://qoto.org/@olives/111191543236620885
First off, you're conflating fiction and reality, and consequently diminishing reality, and diverting mental resources towards what tends to result in racism / puritanism / bigotry. It's very zero sum, and I think it's bad, particularly in the long run.
Perhaps, there is a conversation to be had about content moderation, but too easily it turns into just giving a big middle finger to people. And it seems that whether somewhere is good, or poorer, that can be lumped in together.
https://qoto.org/@olives/111516011246609826
Scientifically, porn isn't really a big deal. I go over other concepts there too, but that is the main take away from that post.
https://qoto.org/@olives/111448111216663879
Censorship here also tends to have perverse effects which are generally not helpful.
https://qoto.org/@olives/111832774730509831
To really understand why Facebook is "bad" though, we really have to dive into the concept of Platformization, which I cover briefly here.
It's worth mentioning that Facebook has big issues with bad actors, and yet, they have stringent anti porn policies. Hell, platforms have cracked down further on porn over the past five years, and it doesn't seem to have gotten better. It's also not really about "scale" per se (I made a mistake earlier this year on focusing a fair bit on scale, actually, but once I thought about it more critically, and read a fair bit of literature, it's not really the key element here), and I think that is actually a distraction. It's more the one stop shop syndrome. Got to be everything. It's hard to know where to even really begin with that even.
https://qoto.org/@olives/111445843755474237
Also, one complainer, who appears to be associated with Facebook, is a well-known bad actor.
There is also the little detail, that actually, an instance is really just a glorified website. Complaining about someone out there is a lot like complaining about "some website out there", and federation is already fairly conservative tbh.
I'm open to a discussion, I suppose, but I think it's hard to have a discussion with that.
