lumpen 🍉 III (@scrum)

@u2764 makes an important point about fedi being used as a platform to recruit impressionable white men into right wing radicalization pipelines, this is a huge issue, personally i have signed up to seemingly nice generic looking instance only to find it's full of nazis, I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I think one way to combat this is formal "confederations" or "unions" or"webrings" or whatever you want to call them, in practice just a list of instances who all agree to same moderation standards and share values, there can be variety of these non-mutually exclusive confederations with different emphasies, furry confederation, hacker confederations, radical bipoc confederations etc.these already exist informally but these opt in instance lists would make it much easier for new users to find a home.

This isn't a new idea, this is how the old BBS communities organized themselves, I believe they were called "federations" (let's brainstorm some new words lol ) Of course all that would require instance admins to put their petting differences aside and pretend to be adults for 5 mnutes, not hopeful.

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