Scott 🏴😷<p>I have seen transphobic stuff said on Fosstodon, report having gone unresponded to. Guess where the pewdiepie fan I just blocked came from? Yup.</p><p>This is only a little bit of evidence, and a lot of people would say I'm going overboard, but I've also seen it talked about from other people and the impression I get is that the people who run Fosstodon just want to think about FOSS software and want to plug their ears and say "la la la I can't hear you" when it comes to "politics".</p><p>To me, that stance would be enough to get the block from this server if it was a small instance, because I know the sort of bigotry that can be got up to when the moderation team takes a hands-off approach and a neutral stance on genocidal politics.</p><p>but</p><p>Fosstodon is fully 6% of my followers. Several individual people who I really appreciate having a connection to are just white men nerds who wouldn't necessarily be opposed to the bigotry coming out of that instance. But the few people are nothing on the amount of Free Software projects who have hitched themselves to Fosstodon.</p><p><a href="https://tams.tech/tags/LineageOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LineageOS</span></a> <br>The <a href="https://tams.tech/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> Software Foundation<br><a href="https://tams.tech/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a><br><a href="https://tams.tech/tags/i3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i3</span></a><br><a href="https://tams.tech/tags/CalyxOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CalyxOS</span></a><br><a href="https://tams.tech/tags/AntennaPod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntennaPod</span></a><br><a href="https://tams.tech/tags/Pipewire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pipewire</span></a><br><a href="https://tams.tech/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a></p><p>This is a part of the fediverse that is both incredibly important as a space that has sown itself in toxic soil and put down deep roots. I just don't know what to do about it.</p>