@sammy how on Earth is that racist? Do you consider the French a race? I fully expected the kind of people I described to go through my profile looking for anything they can over-interpret to declare me a racist/bigot in an attempt to disqualify my opinion and you still managed to surprise me.
I'd argue that actually admin have a responsibility to set community rules and stick to them. There's a lot of bad faith actors out there who hide under a guise of "disrupting the echo chamber" and that's what happens on twitter right now. Lots of disruption and hate and abuse and death threats. I don't love the sound of that, not gonna lie.
@feditips the most common example of radicalisation on fedi I’ve seen is caused directly by over-moderation creating echo chambers where people who think they’re always 100% right saviours of the oppressed and humanity overall lash out with aggression, racism and sexism upon encountering anything that doesn’t confirm their worldview, or even just casually because nobody’s gonna contest them.
It’s really important for the Fediverse admins to block only the material that really needs to be blocked and not just anything they don’t like or agree with.
In real life, I've seen good, sensible, compassionate people turn into racists, bigots and conspiracy theorists.
Why? Because they were radicalised into bigotry.
This happens when people get exposed again and again to lies spread by extreme bigoted groups, usually about vulnerable minorities the extremists want to persecute.
It is *really* important for Fediverse admins to block this material. The further these lies spread, the greater the danger to minorities.