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We're already seeing massive searchability problems from the mass migration of communities to discord servers, it's not a good thing and doesn't make anyone safer.

The choice of bogeymen makes me suspect the motivation is insincere, though.

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It's not insincere. Many of the early adopters were social (queer, trans, furry) or political minorities (socialists, anarchists). They adopted Mastodon because they were sick of being targeted on Twitter and other centralized platforms. I can understand very much why they are protective of their space.

Which is why they should move to allow-list federation, and only allow in other instances they can firstly check to ensure it won't happen again.

Yeah there are vanishingly few online queer spaces not on Discord for pretty much this reason. The ability for server admins to bring down the banhammer and actually moderate bad behavior rather than leaving it to central platform moderators that do nothing about all but the most blatant harassment.

Semi-public semi-searchable discourse is really quite nice when your aim is to not have the spotlight on you. Because there are unfortunately people that actively search for people to target and being on Discord makes that in practice impossible.

I’m a bit confused. Isn’t there a lot of queer-ness on Twitter, Reddit etc?

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