@UP8 I think it's useful to distinguish server blocks from user blocks. Servers don't get blocked because someone gets angry. They tend to be blocked for deliberate, cool-headed decisions to set up servers that enable trolling, racism, coordinated attacks etc.

Maybe the future there is deep learning, but it's a problem right now, and we have pretty effective human-curated, explainable block lists right now.

@sgf @UP8

Heck, in the situation he described:

> people who (sometimes) have good things to say boost hateful content

sounds like a description of a nazi enabler who sometimes shares cute cats pix. I still want to block their entire feed - the cats don't "balance out" the hatred.

@jztusk @sgf from the viewpoint of content-based filtering there is a spectrum of habitual and normalized microagressions such as the incorrect use of an "N-word". A simple filter can improve the ratio of productive to provocative.

I imagine these behaviors are "selfish memes" and don't necessarily reflect on people's deep character.

@UP8 @sgf

"habitual ... incorrect use of an "N-word"" tells me all I want to know about someone's character.

Who are we to impose a filter on someone trying so hard to tell us who they are?

@jztusk @sgf you would condemn these people?

https://tootfinder.ch/index.php?query=nazi&submitquery=Search

who (exclusively of Ukrainians) mainly use the word are incorrectly. Only a handful of very old men survive the NASDP unless you count a handful of cosplayers like George Lincoln Rockwell.

You can pick better insults to sling at authoritarians.

if i am wrong and they rock a swastika I apologize in advance.

When it is family and friends you have to love people no matter what rabbit hole they go down

- warm regards