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You have a bunch of white supremacists because there are no bans...
If you're a giant piece of shit saying horrific garbage you're probably going to flock to the platform where no one can do shit about it...
What authority consistently bans white supremacists at scale?
White supremacists are the eternal allies of the very concept of authority.
What superpower do you have to limit the voices of white supremacists at scale and what gives you the ethical grounds to use it without a community process to bestow you with that power?
This is babytalk honestly, you always need some kind of community moderators in some fashion or a community will collapse into a toxic pool of waste.
Can nobody in the fucking fediverse read fucking clauses adjectives or qualifiers? I swear to fuck.
Sometimes a more complex thought than a completely blanket statement is necessary to an idea
Except we can do shit about it, because there are no bans. That's what you have backwards and that's how they trick you into letting them increasingly take ownership of every discussion space in society
Well go on then...
I have been. I asked others to join me
And all the white supremacists disappeared?
What are you talking about?
How does asking others to join solve anything?
Why would I answer your question when you just ignored mine? You're acting really weird
What question?
Scroll up
Scroll up to what? You asked 1 question, which I already answered.
Where?
Exactly.