The situation is not so urgent or dire that people need to settle for fucking CSAM City. Quit kidding yourself. Point them somewhere else at the very least, man.
Yeah it is. Facebook and twitter are enourmous threats to the free software movement and generally to humankind. On the scale of harms they are right up there with the catholic chuch, pawoo, despite their pedo problem, isn't even on the chart

> Point them somewhere else at the very least, man.

I point them to who gets fediblocked most, in order of who's got an open instance for reigstration. This is

poa.st (which is bursting at the seams so doesn't need more people)
bae.st
pawoo <-- this is #3
baraag.net
detroitriotcity.com
nicecrew.digital <-- is this even open to new users?
spinster.xyz
pieville.net
gameliberty.club
yggdrasil.social
etc
>I point them to who gets fediblocked most

Given that some of the most fediblocked instances are defedded due to FUCKING CHILD PORN, I'd recommend maybe qualifying your onboarding advice with "don't join instances with SHITLOADS OF CHILD PORN ON THEM".
@Sprate @dcc @PurpCat @jeffcliff I'm pretty sure the average person's reaction to seeing a single piece of CSAM on your decentralized social network is to go back to twitter and never, ever leave it for the rest of their life
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@RustyCrab @dcc @PurpCat @Sprate @jeffcliff i'm pretty sure this is why we had a user leave here, though they are still active on twitter. some report from pawoo, of course. it's also why i hesitate to tell anyone to join fedi. most people will see something objectionable and nope the fuck out, which i don't blame them for at all.

we had a problem with pedos begging for session contacts and using AI filtered CP conveniently after pawoo had a big ban wave of those same types of people. i volunteered to be a mod and we dealt with it all as fast as we could but it was a lot to deal with so that's why regs were closed. i had a friend join gameliberty right before that happened and he never came back because of it.

i want the fediverse to succeed and i want anyone who is on our instance to not have to deal with seeing that stuff because it really sucks to be exposed to it. i don't blame anyone for defederating from pawoo or even something like baraag if they know that their userbase isn't going to be particularly fond of the content hosted there. when i momentarily hosted an instance for my friends that's what i did, including a few other instances.

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