The Mastodon Server Covenant

The issue is not that, but the old "who defines what's that". I do have an instance of Mastodon. Conservative, liberals, social democrats and a few communists debate about some issues. My promise is that it will be a space where no controversial idea is shut down, but low-effort posts are not welcomed either.

Now two scenarios can be laid out. One, one of my conservative users have issues with laws that affect trans people.

Two, one of my leftist users is against some trans theory because it's contradictory to his feminist worldwiews.

Will it be transphobia? Who says so? Is being against bill C16 in Canada transphobia? Because it can be interpreted as so, as it has been done.

What if the one that comes to my instance to check if we qualify or not doesn't understand the context of the discussion? What if we are talking about something totally out of the US (or somewhere else) newscycle or kulturwars parameters? This a Spanish speaking place. Some of the users are from Venezuela, identify themselves as social democrats yet they're constantly labelled as right-wingers by US users because they are against Maduro. Some of my users may think that US Democrats are right-wingers too, while voting PSOE in Spain.

You know, this way more complex that "muh free speech", which is the standard meme I see in this debates. IMHO people should do the filter themselves. What's the point of being federated if there's a central server that does the filter for you.