I don't know who burnout.cafe are, but this shit's fucking wild. some rando instance asking mastodon.social to ban queer sexual content on their site.
looking at their instance rules, RULE NUMBER ONE is the most bizarre anti-lewdness rule I've ever seen on an 18+ instance. no content OR COMMUNICATION that can be construed as "sexually oriented or intentionally appealing to prurient interest," whatever that means.
they also limit kinkycats.org, which as far as I've seen is just a super chill instance of lewd accounts and sex workers, for seemingly no reason.
I can't even. if you want to be weird prudes, be weird prudes. but don't force your weird prudishness on the rest of us, please and thank you.
Burnout Café Admin@admin@burnout.cafe@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.
