I've done a long thread about this on Twitter, and I'm not going to do it again here because I have jobs to do, but I've been experiencing massive hate speech and abuse on Mastodon since yesterday. With MASSIVE content warnings for EVERYTHING if you want to get a sense of the problems we have and how important moderation is, you can see caps here: http://plasticbag.org/mastodon
I cannot content warning this stuff enough though.
@tomcoates Jesus Christ, this is fucking awful. I'm so sorry that you had to deal with that. You deserve way better.
It's no secret that there's some really, really fucked up parts of the fediverse that instance admins should block by default. Unfortunately, some admins are so lax about it that they do nothing, which causes problems for their local users and anyone federating with them that aren't already blocking shitty instances.
I'm here to let you know that the experience on the fediverse can in fact be positive, even wonderful, but stuff like this can really sour the experience. The most vile parts can churn out some truly gut-churning stuff.
Again, I'm sorry that you got a taste of that part of the network. It fucking sucks.
Tom Coates
Sean Tilley