@wjmaggos @amerika

> what about a server with lots of spammers?

What I did was write a filter for the spam, because there were a lot of people on Pawoo that I talked to and did not want to stop talking to. Junk mail comes in buckets: did you remove your mailbox?

> I'm a tiny server and don't have your higher standards for free expression.

This is the difference, not whether spam is good or bad.

> if admins didn't do that, the fedi would be full of them I assume.

There are a lot of open servers where the admins are asleep rather than malicious. Fedi doesn't turn out to be full of spam. There's plenty if you can find it, but it is trivial to set up an instance, spam, and then hop domains, and spam is still pretty rare on fedi. Fedi effectively has no admins: instances do (for now). Here you are, using it like normal.

> people would know we are principled defenders of everybody's right to be scammed by Nigerians.

I'll have a conversation with you, but if you're going to be an ass, I've got more pressing matters to attend to. You repeatedly ignore feedback and proceed to beat the strawman, then you mock the strawman. This leads me to the conclusion that you are just doing an internet slap-fight, and I've got no interest.