I've been thinking a lot about #Mastodon these past few days. Is it possible for something mostly run by volunteers to be effective at moderation and safety? If even the richest companies struggle with it in a centralized format, how can multiple instances deal with the sheer volume and complexity (including language and culture) of trust and safety. I'm not making excuses for negligence on the part of the devs, but is it even feasible?

@elsantonegro If 'moderation and safety' means what I think it means, that's the whole reason we don't have it here. The fedi is not for children who need someone to censor racial slurs for them.

@RegalBeagle It depends. It can be that, but it can also be CSAM and gore.

@elsantonegro Maybe fedi can moderate one thing, and I would pick CSAM, but even then, I'm not sure that's possible just as uTorrent can't stop people from making CSAM torrents.

I personally don't care about gore and only care about CSAM in that some fedi instances could encourage more of it to be made and children generally cannot defend themselves.

@queenofnewyork Use the block button or get thicker skin. The internet, just like the real world, is not a safe place.

@RegalBeagle @elsantonegro Ah the arrogance of privilege. If you’ve never had your life threatened, I don’t think you should get a say on safety. If I can’t do anything to protect myself from death threats on the fediverse, that doesn’t mean I need thicker skin, it means I need better tools to block that person and the multitude of accounts they can create to target me.

@queenofnewyork @elsantonegro I've pulled a gun on niggers that broke into my house and have had to pull a knife when attacked by 3 bums, so miss me with that shit.

Privilege is being concerned with people being mean on the internet. You're not special and if people are dogpiling you, maybe you should stop being a giant lolcow.

@RegalBeagle @elsantonegro So in sum you don’t want safety tools so you can keep harming people. Got it.

@queenofnewyork @elsantonegro Why are you here? Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc has all of things you're asking for. People like me and many others miss the wild, wild west internet of yore and this is the closest we have to it. Why can't we have out space? You already have yours.

@RegalBeagle @elsantonegro Oh I’m sorry, did I hurt your feelings? Do you need a safe space where nobody will say anything you don’t like, such as that you’re a racist piece of shit? What a pathetic little snowflake.

@queenofnewyork @elsantonegro And we were having such a good discussion. Shame.

Ugly on the inside as well as the outside. Sums up most troons. Dialate, seeth, and welcome to the fedi, faggot.

@RegalBeagle @elsantonegro Wow, you must really hate yourself. I hope you get the help you so desperately need. In the meantime, please shut the fuck up when adults are talking.

@queenofnewyork @elsantonegro Looks like I'm good to keep going since you're a giant child that can't deal with reality. I'm still on the clock for another 2 hours. The internet hate machine pays pretty well.

@RegalBeagle @elsantonegro You're instance quotes a meme from a movie made by a couple of trans women, so please, do tell me who can't deal with reality.

@queenofnewyork @elsantonegro How does it feel to know you'll die alone and childless? Thank you for sterilizing yourself so the last troon of your lineage.

@RegalBeagle @elsantonegro Pretty rich that you're hurling insults around gender and sexuality when you're clearly a furry, what with your dog fetish.

@queenofnewyork @elsantonegro Don't start what you can't finish. I was wanting to have a nice talk on online communities and the you had to go and troon out. If you had self control we could still be having that talk. Do you know why you have no self control? Are you capable of introspection? I'd stop to not stress your poor troon brain, but I've still got another 1.5 hours until quitting time and this is fun.

@queenofnewyork @elsantonegro You should totally get all your troon buddies together and dogpile my account. Then I can show you how easy it is to not care, because the internet isn't real life and is easy to ignore. I like to led by example.

@RegalBeagle @elsantonegro Here's you, thinking you're firing deadly shots but are just shooting blanks. *shakes head sadly* It's pathetic. You really are a tiny little snowflake, too fragile to survive in the real world. I bet your bosses would LOVE to know what you do on company time. You should tell them how productive you are and show them some screenshots. I'm sure they'd be impressed.

@queenofnewyork @elsantonegro The seething is palpable through the screen. How the troon rages that it has no recourse but to either weather bigoted diatribe, proving the bigot right that all one needs is thick skin or simply give in to the temptation of the block button, still proving the bigot right as the troon has all the tools it needs to insulate itself in its hugbox, freeing from the discomfort of reality.

@RegalBeagle @elsantonegro Like, do you have any real insults in your arsenal? Or do you just default to slurs because you're not creative enough to come up with any on your own? I'm really not sure what I'm supposed to be seething about. If you feel something coming from the screen, it's probably the reflection of your own self-loathing. Maybe you should get that looked at. It seems quite malignant at this point.

@queenofnewyork @elsantonegro I hope you're getting paid as much as I am to shitpost on the fedi. None of your friends have showed up to harass me. Do you not have any? I was looking forward to that. Maybe they're just running late. I'll be on for another 30 minutes or so and then I go do real life stuff. Like, in the real world. With my friends, family, and people that care about me. You know, all those things you're avoiding?

@RegalBeagle @elsantonegro My friends aren't going to dogpile you, because they're concerned you'd get off on anything so canine-like.

@queenofnewyork @elsantonegro You're all a bunch of degenerates, so I know you're into it. Troons gonna troon. Hope you make peace with your dad.

@RegalBeagle @elsantonegro Why thank you, I have made peace with my dad. I hope you make peace with your own parents and, most importantly, yourself.