@JohnShirley2023 @kissane There are other implementations of the same software. I'm not running Mastodon, but Rebased, a fork of Pleroma. There's also Misskey, and probably others I haven't heard of or forgot about. Due to the way the Internet itself works, the only way you're going to control it and preclude people from having opinions you don't like is to create this North Korea-tier micromanagement of the Internet.

Are you willing to do that just to make sure people can't call you a nigger on the computer? I'm pretty sure at this point that leftists in general are so wrapped up in their objection to hate speech that the short answer is "yes." But here's your opportunity to prove me wrong.