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One of the first things I come across in channels is flat earth society- and worse, no way to block it from my feed. Of course... at this point free speech is j

One of the first things I come across in channels is flat earth society- and worse, no way to block it from my feed. Of course... at this point free speech is just a dog whistle for a zone that is so polluted with bullshit that its impossible to have meaningful connection or discussion. I can't recommend or use this until there is some kind of content control, what are your plans to prevent this from becoming another voat or parler? Any plans for scheduling posts or a bot api?

PaybackTony 6y ago
We want to be a place where most anyone can feel at home, but that is a fine line. We don't want to be another politically biased or polluted forum. We have blocking for users and will be extending that to Channels and our upcoming Groups next week. As for API's and scheduled posts, there aren't immediate plans for that until we nail down a proper OAuth implementation to roll out with the officially supported API's. Though there are 4 of us all together, I'm the only engineer of any kind working on it, with potentially some more help on the way here shortly. Your questions are good ones. We asked ourselves very specifically how would we avoid being another parler yet at the same time not alienate one political crowd over another? Was a difficult question. The 4 of us span the political spectrum and I think that has helped keep us centered so far.