Veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg announced on Tuesday he was deactivating his X (formerly known as Twitter) account, saying Elon Musk’s takeover of the site turned it into a “cesspool.”
Mr Mossberg is a well-respected name and expert in the US tech writing industry, who also co-founded media sites such as Recode and AllThingsD. He announced his boycotting of X on Meta’s new platform Threads, saying his reasons revolve around business tycoon Mr Musk’s threats to sue the Anti-Defemation League (ADL).
I spend more time blocking furries on BlueSky than seeing any content of value.
Just yesterday I had an interaction on Mastodon.social that gave me pause and made me question using even the Fediverse.
Someone posted about KOSA legislation coming to “protect children” from trans people like myself.
Somebody got in the conversation and had a link to an organization that actually uses the terminology “map” to refer to the people who are more properly called pedophiles.
I shut that shit down, deleted my comment, and am seriously considering deleting all of my Fediverse accounts.
Like, I’m not here to make friends, but I am not opposed to it either.
I am here to be informed, entertained, maybe sometimes outraged a little.
What do you mean by this? What’s a map terminology?
Minor Attracted Person. Often used by people who are pedophiles or apologists for them.
Thanks.
I regret asking now. I didn’t need to know that lol
I’m not sure why one comment is enough to provoke such a reaction from you? Especially since I see these pedophiles and their apologists on other social media too.
That’s definitely fair. I’ve thankfully not seen that content.
The only content I’ve found that I care about were some of the more active folks on Twitter that had insightful takes or were occasionally funny like Popehat, Mike Masnick, and Kashana.
To continue the previous comment, I want absolutely no association with people that like to play games with terminology like this.
I don’t want any connection with a person that would be okay with sexualizing children, or changing names of the evil people who do it under the guise of being tolerant or pc or some shit.
I don’t want any loli garbage, hentai, nazis, etc.
And that the Fediverse seems to not have any content moderation ( am I wrong/missing something?) makes me want to give up on it.
Maybe go outside, write music, read a book.
The fediverse isn’t a unified whole. Some instances don’t have moderation or have shitty inconsistent moderation. You should move to an instance like beehaw.org or lemmy.blahaj.zone if you want admins that don’t put up with that shit. Both will ban users and other instances that do that allow that kind of shit. While lemmy.world seems fine with it, but if you call out their use of discord they may ban you.