Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@Liberonscien Among other things, yes. From the highly cherrypicked rule, it is obvious that the intent here is "promoting certain social norms", and not the "giving people control over what they see" that people normally ask for CWs for. Then the rule would've been much broader.

A (paraphrased) description by someone I know, of the "fallacy of the factory", which describes a serious risk of centralized manufacturing:

You build a factory to manufacture something that people need. That requires a big investment, that the factory now needs to make back in some way, but the legitimate need isn't big enough to do so.

So now the manufacturer starts inducing demand, by lobbying, advertising the product, whatever is necessary to make back that investment. Eventually the demand exceeds production capacity, and the factory needs to expand, again requiring significant investment - plus surrounding infrastructure *also* needs to expand.

This cycle repeats until your small "factory with a legitimate purpose" has turned into a self-serving sprawling system that keeps expanding unsustainably, regardless of what exact economic system it exists under.

@Liberonscien Specifically calling out nudity/sexuality as requiring a CW *but nothing else* is a tell-tale sign of puritan politics, and it's the root of an awful lot of oppressive shit

So I've been told that the QOTO admin is also planning to sue Eugen over their removal from joinmastodon.org (presumably over the toot about the reason for their removal specifically). I do not have further context to confirm the details here, but here is the receipt.

@ada (That is, we're not the target demographic, the 'clueless centrists' are)

@ada I suspect the play is to try and make defederation appear socially unacceptable, to a broader public which doesn't quite understand yet why it's a thing on here.

@stevelord Oh, *on paper* anyone is welcome to contribute suggestions. In practice, I've talked to the guy, and he absolutely did not listen to a word I've said that didn't already fit into his preconceived notions and conclusions.