That instance is still out there for you to go and join, if you choose to do so. You could even join another “general purpose” instance that had lost its mind and decided that “advocating genocide to fix the problems of straight white men” was somehow general purpose.

It’s just as easy to argue that you are forcing hate groups on to people because you would rather individually block them.

To put it bluntly, I find it difficult to believe that people advocating “just block it” aren’t just doing the usual far-right thing of trying to manipulate people into platforming them.

At best, they haven’t thought through how inadequate a “just opt out” strategy is.

Should we all start messaging you daily photos of our hairy assholes? You can just block the accounts if you don’t want to see them. That way, users who do want daily hairy asshole pics aren’t impacted by a “don’t send explicit photos to unconsenting people” policy, which apparently makes the platform better.

Should it?

The overwhelming majority of mass shooters currently plaguing America are young, male and far-right. They didn’t just wake up one morning as extremists.

The story always reads basically the same. Loneliness, frustration and/or disillusionment made them vulnerable, they stumbled upon the far-right claiming they had answers and were lead down the path of extremism by memes, algorithms and social media groups.

Given that, why should they be platformed at all? Why make the default “if you don’t like it, just block it” rather than “if you want to read it, join their shithole servers”?

While we might not be “kindergarten” any more, there’s definitely users who are in early highschool and users who are vulnerable to cults.

That said, I don’t see hexbear being nearly as dangerous because unlike neo-nazis, state violence isn’t the goal.

Take the murder and enslavement out of modern Nazism and there’s nothing left, because murder and enslavement was the point. Take the murder out of communism and socialism and you’ve got a fairer, less exploitative society because a fairer, less exploitative society was the point.

A place not far from where I live had a chemical plant which just dumped loads of chemicals on a meadow for years.

Sounds cheap.

You can just say that you don’t care. You don’t need to frame your opinion as belonging to hundreds of people, none of whom asked you to.

And of course people in the community don’t care. If they did, they wouldn’t have joined the community.