@arcana

i guess from my side, though id prefer to just leave all of that drama in the past and work towards other things now, ill comment on

> refusal has never knowingly hosted CSA or CSEM. There have certainly been discussions of and posts of loli/shota/cub content, but that is not the same thing at all.

this is true, but considering that the trend is to call loli/shota stuff "csem" and then get mad at me when i said this was crying wolf, i chalked this up as yet another battle ive just accepted that ive lost to the people that pretend to care

> refusal’s stated goal, which folks would know if they bothered to ask instead of accuse, is to deliberately federate with instances that this instance (and most others) blocks, specifically for the purpose of performing outreach to minors on those instances to try to get them into safer situations online.

this was explicitly never a stated goal because i did not feel comfortable stating it publicly (your post here is probably the first time it was ever mentioned in a public away, unless i missed something) - i'd rather it have stayed private because i just want the spotlight off of me, but here it is, it's fine, leave it up

but yeah - i felt increasingly unsafe talking in any public way about anything i was doing because me saying things never mattered + seemed to be endangering everyone around me so i just stopped. the outreach was not the original goal of refusal in any way, but was me trying to figure out the most constructive and doing-good way to move forward in the world

inb4 ppl saying none of this is true and something i am retroactively making up to make myself look better