Have you ever seen a series of posts so bigoted, stupid, and backtracked when called out, that you aren't even sure which one to point at? This is such an easy defederation situation (@staff you're usually really good about this stuff, what's up?). If this is what the admin is, the entire instance is unsalvageable.
I never talk about it, but I will here, because it matters. Sex work is real work, straight, gay, or otherwise.
(But y'all, he took six weeks of moderation training at Meta!)
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.