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

No, we don't. Specially if it means kicking out the people you find inconvenient because they don't fit your bullshit ideas. The Fediverse should be the place for the people who don't fit in other spaces, no more corporate bullshit that wants to grow by sanitizing human communication.

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Mastodon at Burnout CaféBurnout Café Admin (@admin@burnout.cafe)@staff@mastodon.social 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 wh
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