The filter is setup for filtering slurs, not swear words more broadly. So “fuck” and “shit” are no problem, but “b*tch”, “r*tard”, and similar are censored.

“Must” as in it is the only moral course of action? Sure. “Must” as in there is something materially compelling them to do otherwise? Unfortunately, no.

This kind of reporting would be threatened – already is threatened – because of the charges against Assange.

This is intentional.

Yeah. Even my comment is understating things.

Your comment made me think of this tweet:

Tankies, notorious for not wanting to destroy western civilization. /s

Rethuglicans having a normal one making the Demonrats sound based.

The title implies we haven’t been the most unequal society for the better part of a century.

We have a black friend indigenous Secretary of the Interior who says it’s not racist, so it’s fine.

I wonder if this is underhanded retaliation for their workers organizing.

Depends on what you consider taking down. The fact that the project is FOSS means anyone who wants to can fork the code, so it would be hard to eliminate one’s ability to get the source code even if the main repos got taken down and the maintainers are detained or killed.

As to whether they can control the fediverse in a way that allows them to invent reality like they do with mainstream platforms, I could see them trying to compromise admin teams for individual instances. However, unlike mainstream social media, our eggs aren’t all in one basket so to speak. They won’t be able infect the entire platform like they can do with big tech.

That sounds like a good idea generally, but it’s hard to say more without specific feature ideas in mind.

This seems like a big change that also requires a lot of brainstorming to flesh out. It sounds like it would best be made as an RFC for now.

I’m personally annoyed with how the default UI shows messages and mostly work on the frontend, so changing that is definitely on my agenda.

Bomber for me.

There was some discussion among the maintainers months ago regarding holding a contest for a new logo, but it never came up again. I think it would be a good idea.

I’m personally working a full time job in addition to this. However, I spend a lot of my free time contributing because if the only software I worked on was the corpo shit at my dayjob that ends up being cancelled before it reaches production half the time, I’d go insane.

I’ve found the people pretty good. I find it’s easier to get a sense of community on here than it is on big tech platforms.

Joy, but also panic.

Users can already block entire instances, so progress has been made on this front.

I’m curious how we’d go about automatic mod kicking. Instance admins are already able to remove and appoint mods to communities. What would a sensible trigger for auto-removing mods be?

I’ve been wanting to change how the existing admin options are organized on the admin page for awhile now to be easier to understand. As for improvements beyond that, I’m open to suggestions from instance admins for improvements.

Regarding your last point, even if an offending user is registered on another instance, banning them will prevent them from bothering users on your instance.

This is a good idea. There are currently mirrors on codeberg and a gitea instance, but I could see picking one of those platforms as the main place to host and making the github one a mirror. The main hurdle I can see for this sort of migration is that all the open issues are currently on github.