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I moved away from centralised social media, because social media owned by multinational corporations benefit from bigotry and rage, and so allow it to fester and grow. They do this by under moderating, or moderating with a bias against the people being harassed and attacked.
So the last thing I would choose to do is go to a platform/network that prides itself on lack of moderation, and requires vulnerable, targeted folk to play whack a mole, with each person having to reactively block individual bigots, one by one, after they've appeared and dumped their payload of hate.
So there are no moderation tools / whitelist/blacklists?
This is a good thing: bitchasses need to learn words are harmless & they can ignore them like humanity has done for millennia. It's not built into the servers. Client-side tooling would handle it, so it's entirely at the discretion of the user, which seems better to me.
Client-side curation sounds like whitelisting effectively, if you follow only the curated feed and the curated feed resigns all events posted by selected keys, that's a whitelist and seems like a decent solution for casual users so long as they can find trusted curators and clients that enable them to be easily discovered and subscribed to. What client is best for this currently?
On the flipside, if those "curators" were able to export and import lists of keys to automatically exclude from feeds, that would be very useful for the curators who have to manually or automatically sort events and new users to build their feeds. Is that feature currently available? Eliminating known bot accounts from feeds seems like minimum viable feature set for new curators in the current state of play.