More seriously.

Comparing fediverse users being "mean" to LLM fanatics to the racism (both covert and overt) that has significantly discouraged the formation of communities of Black people on the fediverse is quite frankly disgusting.

It betrays a lack of understanding of what racism is, which is *structural* discrimination of a group of people based on race. LLM fanatics are not a group that is systematically discriminated against (quite the opposite right now in fact) and to suggest that is the case is absurd.

re: journalists on fediverse.

I'll say this, Ten Forward has previously defederated two instances of journalists.

First was journa.host which was initially defderated because one of their users writing a article about a fediverse user without their consent and also doing block evasion in the process. I have since removed the block and as far as I know the issue hasn't happened again.

Second was social.bbc which remains defederated due to a institutional transphobia problem that is still present.

I don't have a problem with journalists being on the fediverse but that doesn't mean I will give them a free pass on things that violate my own morals/ethics/policies and those of Ten Forward's.

Once again, this is about freedom of association, I or Ten Forward do not have to associate with any given journalist just because they are journalist.