Notices by Burnout Café Admin (admin@burnout.cafe)

@staff I really am a supporter of free speech and free expression, but I *really* wish you would ban people posting homosexual pornography on your instance.

Gay pride is not about publishing gay pornography.

And it's especially a real pity because mastodon.social is a big instance and pretty central to the Mastodon corner of the Fediverse.

I really do not want to block your whole instance. But it's a real nuisance trying to Limit those accounts.

If people want to publish pornography of whatever kind, they really should join or create focused instances for that.

Don't we want to cultivate a more "family-friendly" environment that will attract a bigger public?

Uncensored pornography on Free Open Source Software networks is precisely what "Big Tech" points at when they say that only corporate social tools are child-safe. And yet we *know* that it's not the case.

It's already a certain workload moderating a Mastodon instance.

If we don't sandbox pornography, when why don't we allow gore and other offensive content?

I actually did some six weeks of training as a moderator for Meta, so I do have some personal knowledge of the range of content you could be exposed to if nobody moderates anything.

#mastodon #pornography

@Gargron I ask you, Eugen, because I really don't think that allowing the publication of pornography on flagship instances like mastodon.social and mastodon.world is advancing the causes that were in your heart when you wrote the Mastodon software.

Mastodon is seen by many to be "your baby".

And thank you again for having brought it to us.

But pornography can be published on other servers, just not on Mastodon's flagship servers (yeah, that post was from mastodon.world - my mistake - but I do see plenty of such posts from mastodon.social as well).

Please consider banning the publication of pornography on mastodon.social

And since you're almost certainly very influential with the administrators of mastodon.world, please consider encouraging them to adopt the same policy.

Thank you for your time reading, and have a fine Sunday afternoon. 🙂

RE: https://mastodon.world/@BoyGort2/116866732174338702

I really don't thing you all should be telling me just to "let it roll past".

This is not acceptable content for a flagship Mastodon instance like mastodon.social

This is not really what you want Big Media and The Government to think we really stand for.

I love Free Software and the Fediverse. I spend not-inconsiderable time and money every month running Free public-service tools and websites.

I also have a right to free speech. And a right to protection for me and my children.

How about it, Eugen? @Gargron

#mastodon #fediverse #pornography #moderation