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@joaopinheiro to further specifically refute your point of "you should come change it if you don't like it":

1. consider how often minorities are expected to sacrifice their safety and sanity in order to "educate" those hurting them. this is not fair; it is an aspect of bigotry. it makes bigotry into something that the minorities bring upon themselves (for they didn't try hard enough to "fix" the bigots), so clearly, the minorities must like it, and therefore bigotry is the natural order. i do not exist to merely be a sacrifice for the enlightenment of others.
2. qoto and its ilk have been told these things, again and again. their response was to rely on harassment tactics from kiwifarms. this is not what a good faith actor does in response to being told there are issues. this is what someone who wishes to hurt others does instead.
3. i would invite you to do some work in googling kiwifarms and why it is bad news. (if you are demanding that everyone else pour in a lot of effort, then surely, a little google search is something you're prepared to do, right?) by associating with them, and using their tactics, qoto has aligned themselves with kiwifarms. using those tactics is a type of threat against every single person on the fediverse that kiwifarms would like to kill - for instance, every single trans person. kiwifarms is, after all, a website that keeps a victorious running count of how many trans people they have bullied into suicide.
4. the work has already been done. by pretending that it hasn't, you are propegating a lot of bigotry still - ignoring the community builders that have been in the crosshairs for qoto's harassment. these are the people who have done a lot of very good work. and part of building their communities was blocking qoto.

i would also like to invite you to meditate upon two things:

first, a joke for your consideration - usually cited as originating from the french or norwegian resistances in ww2. a man sits down for a beer with his eleven friends. his eleven friends are nazis. how many nazis are sitting at the table? twelve.

and finally, a quote from Sartre, which i want you to read knowing what he describes is how most of the fediverse has seen qoto for a very long time -

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

if you need a hint, consider a "YOU ARE HERE" sticker at the last line there. qoto is loftily declaring the time for argument is past, and therefore everyone must be all in on their new initiative.

they get to play. we get to die. that's what this initiative is spearheaded by.