Tom CoatesNov 24, 2022

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.

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Show threadcalc.exeNov 25, 2022
@tomcoates you literally were federating with known shitty instances, that's your fault
Show threadSean Tilley

@thatonecalculator he's not the instance admin, he's just some guy that stumbled on here because there's a zillion instances in various instance pickers that don't really do much vetting at all. He was just doing his thing, and shit went downhill.

Like, I get what you're saying. But if you're brand new and have no idea what spaces are good or bad, and they end up finding you first? It's a dogshit experience.

Nov 26, 2022 at 2:44amWeb
Show threadcalc.exeNov 26, 2022
@deadsuperhero True, instance lists right now are kinda ass with showing practically unmoderated instances. Still, OP could've locally blocked bad actor instances