Update

Dev is also upset at people who did not like their previous post and continues to insult everyone on the fediverse who does not a reddit like experience to attract investors (ie what the dev calls normies). As well as being completely unapologetic while also still attacking trans friendly instances by calling them a box of matches.

https://lemmy.world/post/49887929

You all have made it quite clear that you don’t want an explanation, or even a mea culpla, or to even try to understand the very real problem I’m trying to address for people who want a nicer place in the thrediverse.

You just want a punching bag.

Maybe when the DM harassment and death threats stop and someone wants to come in with a specific good faith question instead of a shotgun to my face, we’ll talk. Until then, fuck off.

Warmest regards,

Pat

But here’s an explainer for the communities:

I’ve already addressed users and such in the previous post, but I will cover communities here.

In short, think of those communities as a box of matches. In the right hands they’re perfectly safe and useful.

In the hands of a petulant child or batshit crazy adult, they’re dangerous and highly flammable.

Given that the average level of maturity of the loudest people here falls somewhere between “petulant child” and “batshit crazy adult”, giving them a box of matches is a very. bad. idea.

Some of those communities are also completely unmoderated.

  • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    48·
    9 days ago

    To be blunt: Tesseract is designed to attract and retain normies. The Fediverse is stuck in a bit of a chicken and egg situation right now. It needs new people, but anyone in their right mind isn’t going to want to stick around because the loudest bunch here are just so off-putting to normal, well-adjusted people. I’ve attempted to resolve this catch-22 situation and am trying, perhaps hamfistedly, to save the Fediverse from itself.

    I gotta ask who these mysterious level headed normies who’d be driven away by the fediverse community are given some of the things that list blocks. Like, for example one of the blocked communities is called “Wholesome Yuri”. Who’s being scared away by lesbians? and why would they be a better, less toxic community than the fediverse’s existing one?

    • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
      17·
      9 days ago

      I subscribe to wholesome Yuri and the worst you see on there is anime girls kissing. I’m sure a guy like that can find a reason to consider blahaj “extremist” or “tolerating extremism”, but blocking wholesome Yuri is clear lgbtq+ bias.

    • Grapho@lemmy.ml
      13·
      9 days ago

      Only the normalest most well adjusted people publish several essay length crashouts justifying massive user level blocklists because they might be secretly Russian

    • certified sinonist@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      I like the casual conflation of ‘normies,’ an ancient internet term denoting people not within the culture, and ‘normal, well-adjusted people.’ They don’t understand what they’re saying when they do this.