tweet by The Wokest Bae @splendidrainco:

White people are always screaming about how we want to live in an "echochamber" because we won't hear out people who disagree with us like yes Karen, I want to scream into the void that black people deserve to live unbothered and that's the only sentiment I want to hear in return

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So turns out there is an ongoing bug on the fediverse where moderation doesn't federate properly, meaning that some removed comments stay up and active, and some banned users remain not-banned and free to continue interacting on their own instances that aren't federating (so out of my sight and control), mainly lemmy.world.

This is a problem, especially for a space like this which I intended to be safe and free of the bigoted/bad faith/reactionary noise that exists everywhere else, where we validate each others existences and experiences instead of having to justify and defend them.

Moderating already takes more time and mental focus than I was expecting, and if it actually was effective I really wouldn't mind, but it obviously isn't, and I don't like wasting those on a futile task.

So for now, and until this is hopefully fixed, I will be taking a big step back. I probably will still post once in a while just to keep the magazine alive, but nothing that would require any heavy modding (which excludes a lot of what I have to share lol), but rest assured, if and when the bug is fixed, I will be back in full force!

Thanks everyone for your support so far, I hope you stick around to wait this out. 💙