HOLY SHIT... I just tried firefish.social and there's TONS of right wing anti trans lies in their trending "news."

No fucking thank you.

What are you talking about? Trending isn’t even working right now… sources please.

That’s a mastodon server. Firefish.social is admined by a single person I think. They probably just need to add that server to their blocklist. Like any federated app like Kbin and Lemmy this will need to be addressed, but is hardly the fault of Firefish the software. If anything like mastodon.social Firefish.social will need help moderating which servers to block as it grows.

The admin would absolutely not want this federating with Firefish.social. I am sure as soon as we let them know they will deal with this.

Not to speak for @jerome, but they were originally talking about the topics appearing in the trending news, which implies that they are referring to firefish.social's federation/lack of defederation from problematic instances, not the software itself
Quite right. Must have been the global feed.
Correct they seem to have an issue moderating content.