@staff I really am a supporter of free speech and free expression, but I *really* wish you would ban people posting homosexual pornography on your instance.

Gay pride is not about publishing gay pornography.

And it's especially a real pity because mastodon.social is a big instance and pretty central to the Mastodon corner of the Fediverse.

I really do not want to block your whole instance. But it's a real nuisance trying to Limit those accounts.

If people want to publish pornography of whatever kind, they really should join or create focused instances for that.

Don't we want to cultivate a more "family-friendly" environment that will attract a bigger public?

Uncensored pornography on Free Open Source Software networks is precisely what "Big Tech" points at when they say that only corporate social tools are child-safe. And yet we *know* that it's not the case.

It's already a certain workload moderating a Mastodon instance.

If we don't sandbox pornography, when why don't we allow gore and other offensive content?

I actually did a some six weeks of training as a moderator for Meta, so I do have some personal knowledge of the range of content you could be exposed to if nobody moderates anything.

#mastodon #pornography

Replying to @admin@burnout.cafe

@admin @staff "Gay pride is not about publishing gay pornography."

You have no fucking right to tell others what pride means to them. The fucking nerve for you to even think that it is OK.

"Don't we want to cultivate a more "family-friendly" environment that will attract a bigger public?"

Who ever said that was mastodon.social's goal? Why would you assume it is?

"If we don't sandbox pornography, when why don't we allow gore and other offensive content?

No one gets to blanket allow or deny anything on the Fediverse. Its peer to peer and open source. Admins get control over their instance and that is the extent of their authority. Stop trying to exert your authority over other instances.

"I actually did a some six weeks of training as a moderator for Meta, so I do have some personal knowledge of the range of content you could be exposed to if nobody moderates anything."

I assure you that nobody on the Fedi cares one rat's ass how Meta does anything. Fuck Meta. Fuck X, and fuck those that want to turn the Fedi into another sanitized, sex hating wasteland.

Jul 4, 2026, 18:30 UTCen