yet another meta
Most of the problems of qoto and UOfI are trivially solved by blocking and/or defederating, as it's obvious that nothing good will result from explicitly institutionalizing bigotry in a cross-instance code of conduct.
What makes me especially sad, though, is that UOfI has pretty effectively taken the air out of the room for good-faith efforts at creating cross-instance resources for community support.
yet another meta
Like, try to offer shared codes of conduct or moderation guidelines, let alone volunteering moderation time, and you quickly land on the same land already poisoned by alt-right trolls. The actions that qoto and UOfI have taken substantially harm efforts to make a meaningful fediverse centered on personal agency and on community health.
re: yet another meta
@cgranade Yeah, this is precisely what I was concerned about when I originally started warning people about this, the whole-system effects that you can't defederate away :/
I guess the positive aspect is that I'd expected to get a lot of "what are you complaining about, just block them and call it a day" replies, but those didn't happen! So it seems that people at least pretty widely recognized the whole-system effects.
