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You don’t think it would be a far more productive use of their time and resources to only federate with a handful of instances that are well-known and reputable? Beats trying to account for every possible “Alternative Fediverse“ that dares to exercise their civil liberties by using coarse language.

Honestly, if someone is sensitive to the point where they feel inclined to bloat out entire communities simply because of something another said, then perhaps the internet isn’t a suitable place for them.

That said, assuming they don’t want to remain an eternal janny. Forever updating their blocklist whenever the next edgy instance eventually comes along. Then restricting federation only to instances that have been vetted beforehand may be worth considering; whitelisting.

Because if you’re unable or unwilling to accept social interaction, then may as well build an echo chamber. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

@eolach Speech comes with consequences, and the consequence for blatant racism is getting blocked. Blocking racist abuse is no more building an echo chamber than spam filtering is; there's no value there.

This isn't some weird long tail thing. mastodon.social blocks detroitriotcity. Blocking racists is pretty mainstream, even if you decide to only complain about it to small black-run instances.

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@eolach Mostly, though, if you think people who can't handle abuse shouldn't be on the internet, you're hanging out in the wrong places.

There are billions on the internet now, and most people don't think receiving abuse is an integral part of it. Most people don't think free speech is about enabling the racist abuse of strangers.

Find better people to hang out with before you start believing Ayn Rand made sense.

@eolach Eh? Where'd that come from?