This is the last thing I'm going to say on that place:
Black people, women, trans people, and disabled people should not have to hide ourselves to avoid harassment.
If you don't want us blocking and avoiding your nazi-land en masse, if you don't want your software to be associated with nazis, come up with ways to stop the nazis from harassing us rather than crying TO US about your precious software.
Give us some confidence in your software's ability to not be abused by nazis. Duh.
@guerrillablack There is no technical solution that will make a piece of software unusable to nazis. There are ways to implement moderation so those who don't want nazis can keep them out, and of course there can and should be fairly strict moderation on the flagship instance to help shape the culture, but even with perfect moderation tools there's nothing stopping Stormfront setting up their own instance. This is why instance-level blocking exists.
@guerrillablack (There probably is some room for better tools allowing users to shape their own timelines though. For one, someone really needs to write a frontend to the filters that doesn't require knowing regular expressions... maybe I'll take a crack at it, though my software skills are somewhat lacking these days)
