If people have set up communities that work with standards that you don’t like, you don’t have to be part of it. Equally you don’t get to dictate standards for them.
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ggsu7@futurology.today 9 months agoUnpopular opinion: overly sensitive people should not be allowed to use the internet. Why should everything revolve around their insecurities? Grow a thicker skin or stop using the internet.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Womble@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But equally equally, if they set up their own communities in public but just an obscure location, they shouldn’t complain that their public posts are public. Security by obscurity is no security. Frankly its the worst of all worlds to have a place like that as it encourages feeling safe while having the possibility of having the rug pulled out from under you at any moment.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Which is why the fediverse has a culture of respecting different communities needs.
spiderman@ani.social 9 months ago
i don’t support this statement but if there is a safe space on some part of fediverse that is dedicated for people who suffer from insecurities or other problems, why can’t it be indexed so that more people can find a safe space for them too?
most of the fediverse platforms have good moderation tools that can even ban a whole instance, so why are we still trying to gatekeep the safe spaces?
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 9 months ago
And once you have this index of a vulnerable group of people how do you gatekeep that from the trolls? And moderation tools only work on this platform, the problem is the trolls that take that info to everything these people interact with and make it a game to give them no peace.
gabe@literature.cafe 9 months ago
There are instances on the fediverse that have harassed people to their deaths. So…