They probably mean non-residents instead of non-citizens. Would make more sense that way at least.

It’s not that special is the thing. Any tech company can replicate what tik-tok is doing it’s just that they don’t have inertia that tik-tok does.

Not sure but giving your own products preferential placement on what you present to the public as an open marketplace is an anti-competitive behavior that they have been caught doing.

Surely there’s a middle ground between “defederating hundreds of instances” and “defederating practically none”.

While that may be true to an extent, it’s also reasonable to want a place where you can let your guard down.

By just dealing with it. Doesn’t make it less shitty though.

Sometimes people just don’t wanna see slurs or dehumanizing content. Doesn’t make them soft. Something you see that is “an opinion you dislike” might feel a whole lot worse for someone else depending on their age, race, sexuality, gender, ect.

You’re right. I just blocked them directly.

That’s your prerogative. I hopped to a different instance that more closely aligned with what I was looking for and also appears not to be ban-happy.

IDK why people are thinking he’s gonna de-federate for transphobia when he has allowed the matt walsh documentary to sit on his instance for days now