what was the original reasoning for them giving him immunity in the first place.

This is not a good comparison. Our bodies are not engineered by anyone, but our software is.

I honestly don’t know if I believe any of this. It could be one big distraction, and I think the people in high positions of power are skeptical as well.

Firstly, I want to say I appreciate your dedication to creating a well moderated and maintained community.

However, I feel like this is an overall bad decision.

Essentially what I’m thinking is, how is this sustainable?

The amount of control that youre trying to achieve here is going to create an increasingly small and insular community. Also, there is a serious risk of burn out on the moderation end if you’re attempting to currate this much, the more this server grows the harder this is going to be to maintain.

With the type of platform that this is, we’re going to have a wide variety of people. A lot of them are just going to be bad people. Simply defederating won’t fix this, and it will also be a problem here even with manually approved sign ups.

If people want to, they will just lie to get in. Essentially your system right now relies on people not lying to you when they sign up. A targeted harassment campaign could easily overcome that.

What’s next? Are we going to deferate kbin.social and mastodon.social? Why don’t we just defederate every instance? Even the biggest social media platforms have a seriously hard time moderating content they actually don’t want on their platform. You can literally find porn on Youtube.

Tipping your hand on the scales this much is really stressful for a small team, and often doesn’t lead to the outcomes that you thought you wanted. I hope in the near future you refederate, but I understand if you don’t.

Yeah, I make my own music. I haven’t put out my album though yet lol

Yes, I think so. It’s a lot easier to maintain your distro if the maintainers of the project handle everything regarding application packaging.

I think morally and optically speaking, anything that endorses Loli or Shota is disgusting. On the basis of them saying they are “friendly” to that type of content, they should be delisted, regardless of if you see it as soon as you login or not.