this quote from Bunnie Huang is, i think, probably the best justification for proactive correction of biases i've seen

@LogicalDash @feld @ciaby @Mainebot @lain

You assume, erroneously, that we don't do that.

When I see Pleroma users being assholes and going after people, I ask them to stop.
When people bring it to my attention, I ask the person in question to stop.

It might come to surprise you that we're not the boss of these people and they can and will do whatever they want to do. Us asking the people you complain about to stop has a similar success rate to Gargron asking Mastodon users to stop whatever behavior they are doing, but we do it anyway.

The complaints always come down to the group of "fringe" servers, and then half the time they are even attributed to GNU Social servers that have nothing to do with us. What do you propose we do about "fringe" servers whose admins do not care what we have to say?

Finally, as always, if you have a problem with a mainstream Pleroma server and you want help mediating the problem, feel free to reach out to us. We will try to help you to the best of our ability, but like I said, we're not the boss of those people, they will either listen, or not, and we're not going to waste time yelling at people who have made it clear that they don't care to listen -- instead, you should just block those instances like you would toot.love or any other Mastodon instance which has the same philosophy toward moderation.

guys like half of your complaints about Pleroma (especially anything involving privacy) are probably better attributed to postActiv

we support all the same stuff Mastodon does and nobody had to threaten us to do it, in fact we have plans to do even more privacy stuff after 1.0 (but not E2E)